Chiang Mai– National League for Democracy (NLD) General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi will go on a three-day retreat in a Rangoon meditation centre from Friday to Sunday, according to Win Htein, the NLD office chief. (more…)

Burma’s cyber warriors have gone from relative obscurity to this year making the country the world’s top source for internet attack traffic, according to a recent study by leading US tracking company Akamai. (more…)

Several villages located in a zone of heavy fighting in Kachin state have been ordered by Burmese army commanders to relocate as thousands of people continue to be displaced by conflict in Burma’s north. (more…)

With false inventory list that stated goods of description were the rolls of tissue paper, shipping containers in which automobiles and other valued items illegally imported by businesspersons were confiscated at Myanma Industrial Port. (more…)

Chiang Mai– Burma’s Ministry of Energy has invited companies to bid for exploratory rights for oil and natural gas on 18 inland blocks in Central Burma.
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Amid much fanfare the new Burma education minister announced in April this year that all compulsory primary education would be free in the academic year 2011 to 2012. (more…)

Bangkok — While a new refugee swap deal between Australia and Malaysia will offer hope to some of the tens of thousands of Burmese refugees in Malaysia, there are different views on whether the arrangement lives up to international standards. (more…)

Federal aid officials have not shown adequate monitoring of cyclone relief efforts in Myanmar, according to a recent audit ordered by Congress – oversight deemed necessary to ensure aid monies are not touched by the repressive Myanmar government and military. (more…)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Open Letter (Unofficial Translation)

1)     U Thein Sein, President, Union of Myanmar
2)     Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)
3)     Karen National Union (KNU)
4)     New Mon State Party (NMSP)
5)     Shan State Army (SSA)
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The military-backed Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) are in the process of signing a ceasefire agreement, sources from both sides said. (more…)

Burmese Labor Minister Aung Kyi urged pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to legally register her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), when they met on Monday for the first talks between the two sides since a new government was formed earlier this year, according to sources.

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Burma Vice-President Sai Mauk Kham, an ethnic Shan, lacks the influence to halt human rights abuses by government troops in ethnic areas, according to observers in his home state.
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Chiang Mai– Union Election Commission (UEC) chairman Tin Aye urged all 37 registered political parties to take part in working for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Burma by foreign countries at a meeting held in Naypyitaw on Wednesday. (more…)

Adversities faced by the Tatmadaw’s ordinary soldiers and junior officers, especially after the recent reduction of supplies to their family members, have hit home prompting responsible commanding officers to tend resignations, according to a report from the Sino-Burma border. (more…)

Two batches of photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi taken in the last week have made it to the front page of various news journals, the first time in years that the opposition leader’s face has been allowed to take centre stage in domestic news. (more…)

When Maw Keh was 34 years old, he asked the question so many of us ask ourselves: What am I going to do with the rest of my life? (more…)

The reopening of a prized trade point along the Thai-Burma border will rest on Thailand’s ability to effectively clear border towns of anti-Napyidaw armed groups, Burmese officials have reportedly said. (more…)

Police raided a rented room in Chiang Mai’s Muang district yesterday morning and rescued eight children aged 3-14 from three Burmese human-trafficking suspects, who reportedly forced the kids to beg |on the street and assaulted those |failing to meet a daily target of Bt500. (more…)

On a typical sunny day in 2010, Burmese authorities and their corporate partners from China confiscated Khaing Khaing’s small family plot on Maday island in the Bay of Bengal. The remote and mountainous Southeast Asian island, scorched during equatorial hot seasons and drenched in tropical monsoons, sits in the path of proposed oil and gas pipelines to China. (more…)

The Tak governor has claimed the reason Myanmar has closed its border for over a year is because it wants to pressure Thailand to shut down a refugee camp which is believed to be used by Burmese rebels while more than two billion baht worth of border trade have been lost due to the border closure. (more…)