Bangkok — For over two decades pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi defied Myanmar’s army rulers with steely resolve, but analysts say she has now embraced compromise, even if that means putting principles aside. (more…)

Bangkok — Myanmar’s army is poised for a major assault on Kachin minority rebels, the guerilla group said Thursday, despite calls for an end to the violence which has cast a shadow over the new regime’s reforms. (more…)

Burmese President Thein Sein said the government would increase cooperation with international nongovernmental organizations, including the United Nations, to offer humanitarian aid and resettlement programs to ethnic areas. (more…)

Burma’s government will lift “unnecessary” restrictions on the media when a new press law is introduced later this year, Deputy Information Minister Soe Win said on Thursday at an event in Mandalay to mark World Press Freedom Day. (more…)

Thai companies have hailed Myanmar’s promise of tax privileges and have downplayed concerns over a threat by Karen rebels to close a border checkpoint between the two countries. (more…)

WASHINGTON D.C.—Congratulating Aung San Suu Kyi and her party colleagues on becoming Members of Parliament, the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and Canada unanimously termed the event as an important moment for Burma’s future. (more…)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s long resistance to Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship gave her people — and the world — hope that her country would someday be free. Her swearing in this week as a member of Myanmar’s Parliament is an important step forward, but the struggle to establish a real democracy is not over.
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Landslide: There’s no other way to put it really when you look at the results. The National League for Democracy wiped the floor with the Union Solidarity and Development Party in Burma’s April 1 by-elections, not to mention the 15 other parties and handful of independent candidates that contested the vote. (more…)

It has become a pattern. Whenever the ethnic Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar reach Thai shores, the authorities arrest them as a matter of course, then provide them with water and food before pushing them out to sea again so they can go to their intended destination. (more…)

Burma’s government is using the promise of development as a key component in its current peace negotiations with armed ethnic organizations, proposing ceasefire first, then development, and finally a national political agreement. This process has been tried before in Kachin State with disastrous consequences. (more…)

Greater freedom of expression in Burma has seen it move from the second worst country in the world for press censorship to number seven on that list according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. (more…)