Yangon—Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to Myanmar’s Supreme Court Thursday, the latest in a string of legal wranglings over the dissolution of her political party before last year’s elections. (more…)

Some 800 prisoners have been taken from their cells in central and eastern Burma and used as porters to carry equipment for frontline troops in Karen state, DVB has learnt. (more…)

The Burmese junta’s proxy, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), has formed a Buddhist organization to discourage Burmese from joining others religions, in a move that some observers called a misuse of religion for political purposes. (more…)

Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) met with Paul Grove, the senior Republican aide on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee for foreign operations to stress the fact that insurrections in Burma, which have taken place for over six decades now, is intentionally created by the ruling military junta. They constitute one of its ways to keep and expand its power, according to the party’s spokesperson, Sai Leik. (more…)

New Delhi: Indian envoy to Yangon V.S. Seshadri has met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi twice since her release from house arrest in mid-November. (more…)

Burma’s government will privatize most remaining state-owned industries as part of the country’s transition to democracy, according to a senior regime official quoted by a local news journal. (more…)

Inle Lake, Myanmar – The boatman turns off the engine and lets his long boat glide along Myanmar’s Inle Lake, as foreign tourists soak in the stunning scenery of villages built on stilts dotting the shorelines of the massive freshwater lake ringed with picturesque mountain ranges. (more…)

The international community has become much more interested in the plight of Burma’s estimated 240,000 HIV/ AIDS sufferers since Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest on Nov. 13, according to Phyu Phyu Thin, a well-known HIV/AIDS activist and a youth leader with Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD).     (more…)

Yangon – An ASEAN-Japan Transport Partnership (AJTP) conference will be launched in Myanmar’s Yangon for the first time this month, aimed at preventing the natural environment from being affected by transport system, the local Biweekly Eleven News reported Thursday. (more…)

There are a total of 2189 political prisoners in Burma, a decrease in comparison to last month’s figure of 2203. In December, 16 political prisoners were released. (more…)