Burmese government officials have confirmed that U.N. human rights investigator Tomas Quintana will meet senior officials in the capital next week after having been denied a visa for more than a year. (more…)

Rangoon – President Thein Sein reportedly invited Burmese citizens who live in foreign countries to come back home to Burma, and he urged armed groups to surrender to the government, during a meeting in Naypyitaw on Wednesday.

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Taipei – Taiwan’s main opposition party said Wednesday its top officials paid a rare visit to Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who praised the role of women in the island’s politics. (more…)

Yangon – Myanmar’s state-run newspapers dropped back-page banners attacking Western media for the first time in four years on Wednesday, the latest indication its new government could be softening its stance towards opposition voices. (more…)

Ongoing cases of land confiscation have been reported in Burma’s Shan, Arakan, Mon and Karen states, as well as in Tenasserim Division, according to human rights groups and local sources. (more…)

Two of Burma’s major armed ethnic groups have rejected accusations made recently by the government that they are targeting civilians during their battles with the Burmese army. (more…)

A public exercise to evacuate Thai citizens on the Chiangmai border, opposite Mongton township, in the event of a renewed war between the ethnic resistance and the Burma Army was held yesterday under the auspices of the Royal Thai Army’s Phamueng Force, according to border sources. (more…)

Colombo – Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister of External Affairs Neomal Perera receiving Myanmar’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs U Maung Myint at Sri Lanka’s Ministry of External Affairs. (more…)

Chiang Mai – National League for Democracy (NLD) Vice Chairman Tin Oo organized a political science training course for members of the NLD youth wing and Youth Network in Bangkok recently. (more…)

The Eleven Media Group and veteran journalist Ludu U Sein Win have explicitly made realistic comments on the article written in the state-owned newspapers issued on 9 August 2011 by “A Service Personnel of Electric Power” about the Hydropower Project being implemented in Myanmar. (more…)

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi recently made her first political trip outside Rangoon since being released from house arrest. (more…)