Chiang Mai – The Taunggyi branch of  the National League for Democracy (NLD) will donate US $1,977 to Tahlay earthquake viticms in eastern Shan State. (more…)

An alliance of political parties known as the Group of Democratic Party Friends (GDPF) yesterday urged the new government led by president Thein Sein to immediately start implementing the objectives made in his inauguration speeches. (more…)

Burma, also known as Myanmar, is ruled by a military junta which suppresses almost all dissent and wields absolute power in the face of international condemnation and sanctions. (more…)

Chumphon, Thailand—Burmese people living in a fishing village in Thailand’s southern province of Chumphon have accused the local police of severe repression. (more…)

Bangkok – In Mong La, a gambling town on Burma’s north-eastern border with China, business is booming. Chinese gamblers, flush with cash from the profits made from Burmese timber, gems and mines, place big bets on the turn of a card, all bills to be settled in renminbi. (more…)

Insufficient food may have been main reason for Lenggeng breakout, say police and Immigration. (more…)

Singapore — The United States will maintain sanctions against Myanmar while attempting to engage its new leadership, and is concerned about China’s crackdown on dissidents, a senior US official said Wednesday. (more…)

Democracy is not the dawn of a new era in Myanmar — it is just business as usual. (more…)

Burma’s military regime has been publicly dissolved, according to state televisions and newspapers, after the country swore in a new president on 30 March. (more…)

If you read The New Light of Myanmar hoping to find signs of change in Burma, you can be forgiven for feeling a bit despondent. Retired general Thein Sein’s inaugural speech as the country’s newly minted president gave no indication that his government sworn-in on March 30, has any intention of breaking with the policies of the past two decades. (more…)