Yangon, Myanmar – A top member of Myanmar’s junta was appointed head of the country’s new Election Commission on Thursday, a lawmaker said, as the military continued to consolidate its grip on power after widely condemned elections. (more…)

A Myanmar Special Economic Zone Law was recently promulgated by the State Peace and Development Council to, in its words, ‘cause further development of the economic momentum of the state’. (more…)

Japan sees a role for itself in Burma’s Dawei Port industrial-estate project, particularly in financing, by joining with Thailand. (more…)

A mass vaccination campaign is underway across Burma after reports surfaced of young children contracting a rare strain of the polio virus. (more…)

New Delhi—When he heard that he was to be forcefully recruited as a porter for the Burmese army for a second time, Awn Khan Pauhe and his family packed a few belonging, said goodbye to their relatives and neighbors, and left their ancestral home of Tedim in Chin State and headed across the border to India and traveled by bus to New Delhi. (more…)

The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday ordered the Immigration Bureau to immediately release and pay a small sum of damages to an injured Burmese worker held in a locked cell at the Bangkok Police Hospital. (more…)

Well-known human rights activists and members of advocacy groups who gathered on Feb. 12-15 in Prague, Czech Public to discuss issues surrounding Burma called on the EU to use all its power to push the Burmese regime to make real democratic reforms. (more…)

At first glimpse, February has been a month of peaceful, disciplined transition from 22 years of military rule  in Burma to a hybrid civil-military government, with the decentralization of the power structure from the central to regional governments.     (more…)

In the aftermath of the 1988 uprising, neocolonialist countries of West Bloc aided and abetted the aboveground and underground anti-government groups covertly or overtly in their clashes with the then State Law and Order Restoration Council government. At the same time, pressures and economic sanctions were imposed against Myanmar to instigate another unrest and violence by making the people poor. The main aim was to help their stooges gain power through regime change. (more…)