Sales of rice have declined in Burma as exporters, including the military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (UMEHL), have stopped buying from domestic traders following a drop in the value of their overseas earnings, according to business sources. (more…)

The Burmese government’s campaign to rout armed ethnic groups along its northern border has at its heart the goal of securing areas around lucrative China-backed hydropower projects, environmental groups claim. (more…)

A HUGE candle burns on the stage in Judson Hall as the announcer invites children to come forward. After lighting their small red candles from the larger flame, the kids disperse through the hall, sharing the light with the 200 people gathered for the memorial service. (more…)

The HIV Hotline Initiative Group (HHIG), which offers free phone counselling to HIV patients, next month plans to expand its services to include email counselling, said Ma Thida, a spokesperson from the organisation. (more…)

Bangkok – Authorities in Thailand have freed 54 illegal migrants from Myanmar who were held for ransom by traffickers, police said Thursday. (more…)

Washington – The United States on Thursday called on Myanmar to cease hostilities in northern ethnic minority regions after deadly clashes triggered an exodus of refugees into neighboring China. (more…)

Australia’s parliament has rejected a planned deal to send hundreds of refugees who arrive in the country by boat onto Malaysia, where they face indefinite detention. (more…)

The current armed conflict in Burma’s northern Kachin State has effectively ended nearly two decades of ceasefire between the country’s second largest ethnic army, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and the newly sworn-in Naypyidaw government, bringing a strategic region near the Chinese border to the verge of a civil war. (more…)

An exodus of refugees has begun near the Chinese border in northern Burma fearing that they will be recruited as porters by the Burmese Army as the civil war with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) snowballs. (more…)

Bangkok — Fighting spread on Wednesday in the volatile northern reaches of Myanmar between a large rebel army and government troops, a rebel spokesman said, the latest flare-up in a simmering conflict between ethnic groups and Myanmar’s central government. (more…)

Around 30 Chinese nationals who were trapped for several days in a hydropower station as armed conflict engulfed parts of Kachin state have been released and returned to China. (more…)

A delegation from Vietnam has finished a high-level trip to Burma at a crucial time in regional diplomacy for both countries. (more…)

Yangon – Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications authorities are planning to launch a satellite which cost about 200 million U.S dollars in cooperation with companies from Russia, China and Japan, local media reported Wednesday. (more…)

Washington — Among the hundreds of thousands who have fled Myanmar and its tyrannical rulers over the years is a military insider who claims he carried a big secret with him: evidence of a hidden nuclear weapons program. (more…)

Geneva — The United States has named China, Iran, Libya, North Korea and 10 other nations that it wants the U.N. to hold accountable for alleged human rights violations. (more…)

Chiang Mai – Amnesty International has called on Burmese President Thein Sein to allow  the ‘urgent establishment’ of the proposed international commission of inquiry into human rights abuses in Burma. (more…)

THE film is jinxed. Due to screen at the Sydney Film Festival today, Dancing with Dictators has been pulled at the 11th hour after a series of calamities. (more…)

It’s been a long time coming, but it seems like the vaunted “peace” that Burma’s former military rulers brought to much of the country over the past two decades has finally reverted to war. (more…)

REMARKS by Asean’s Secretary-General this month suggest that the grouping’s vision of itself as an integrated community by 2015 is set to be delayed. (more…)

In a program broadcast on June 3, Aung San Suu Kyi highlights the need for a probe into the 2003 Depayin massacre and urges participation in a signature campaign demanding the release of political prisoners. (more…)