Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi expressed concern Thursday that dead people were appearing on voter rolls in Myanmar ahead of upcoming by-elections, in a meeting in Yangon with Canada’s foreign minister. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi used Thursday’s visit of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to fire another round in her long fight for freedom – she warned of voter fraud threatening Myanmar’s coming landmark elections. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — A Buddhist monk who was one of the leaders of the failed Saffron Revolution in 2007 has undergone questioning by Myanmar authorities for the second time since being released from prison in January. (more…)

Burma’s government is holding talks with ethnic Kachin armed rebels in the hope of brokering a truce in the decades-long conflict. (more…)

A motorcade carrying Aung San Suu Kyi and party colleagues along a highway south of Burma’s capital was hit with stones on Tuesday evening, injuring two bodyguards. (more…)

A peace mediator, Hla Maung Shwe, told Mizzima that U.S. attaché Andrew Webster; second secretary of the British Embassy Joe Fisher; and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative Hans ten Feld observed the talks held at the Karenni State guesthouse in Loikaw. (more…)

Environmentalists claim that scenic Inle Lake, Burma’s second largest inland body of water, needs urgent attention to prevent severe poisoning from pesticides and aggressive development. (more…)

Despite the dramatic changes in Burma, many obstacles are in the way of true reforms that benefit ordinary people, Burmese academics and activists said yesterday. (more…)

And the back-to-Burma U.S. investment wave begins. (more…)

Chiang Mai – Residents in Tanhpre Village near Burma’s Miytsone Dam project have been ordered to move to a government-constructed village within 10 days or face criminal charges, say villagers. (more…)

AMID the bustle and crumbling masonry of downtown Yangon, there is one building that likes to keep up appearances: Myanmar’s only synagogue. On a narrow street, tucked behind a lot of paint shops, stands the splendid Musmeah Yeshua. Dating from the 1890s, it is a reminder of a lost world and an almost vanished community. It also provides a test of how far Myanmar can change. (more…)

The other day Burma observed an unhappy anniversary. On March 2, 1962, General Ne Win seized power in a coup d’état, beginning a reign of folly and cruelty that has brought ruin to a once rich, civilized country. (more…)

The government of President Thein Sein has had considerable success in wooing Western countries with a flurry of reforms. A transition to peaceful democracy, however, will be simply impossible without overcoming decades of mistrust and acrimony between the state and armed ethnic groups. Third-party mediation, whether through the U.N. or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), is the way forward. (more…)

Basketball sensation: Harvard University graduate Emily Tay is the subject of “No Look Pass,” screening at the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. (more…)

Gen Sumlut Gun Maw, the vice-chief of staff of the Kachin Independence Army, talks exclusively with The Irrawaddy at his command center in Laiza. Behind the general hangs a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi while a projector streams video from the talks in Ruili and a banner which reads “God is our Victory” hangs nearby. (more…)