The US Ambassador Mitchell urged Myanmar government to take actions against the incitement perpetrators using the social network to create social crisis. (more…)

Human rights activists slammed the Burmese government on Wednesday for revoking a prison amnesty granted to an opposition party member last year, after he was accused of ‘defaming’ the police. (more…)

An outpost belonging to the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) in northeastern Burma was burnt down on Sunday by government soldiers, who claimed to be searching for four Burmese “civilians” who went missing at the end of last month, rebels say. (more…)

Loi Taileng — 19 May 2012 was the last time the Shan State Army (SSA) South, officially the Restoration Council of Shan State /Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and Naypyitaw’s Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) met in Kengtung to sign a 12 point union level agreement. (more…)

The abrupt exit of one of Myanmar’s leading reformist ministers from the helm of the government’s powerful investment commission has raised fresh questions about President Thein Sein’s ambitious reform agenda and unsettled investors. (more…)

A Mon youth group has urged authorities to release all 11 people detained since mid-April for allegedly attacking a police officer during the traditional Water Festival in Mon State. (more…)

Two leading land rights activists have been charged with organizing unsanctioned protests to demand back their expropriated lands in Thingangyun Township, Rangoon Division. (more…)

With the idea of connecting film and human rights, “The Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival” will launch in Rangoon next month, according to the festival’s founder and director, Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi. (more…)

In April, Myanmar Post and Telecommunication (MPT) unveiled a 1,500 Kyat (less than $2) worth CDMA mobile SIM to the public in the country and has reached the countryside recently but the costs have risen many folds, according to local news sources. (more…)

Former Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh paid a visit to Naypyidaw this week, where he talked about opportunities to invest in Burma with Vice President Sai Mauk Kham. (more…)

Government officials, urban planners and construction companies said they are planning to develop Rangoon into a “mega city” of more than 10 million inhabitants by 2040, doubling its current population size. (more…)

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says long running insurgencies in Myanmar’s border regions have led to the growth in poppy production and the manufacture of methamphetamine. (more…)

Hundreds of Buddhist residents in western Burma’s Arakan state took to the streets this week to protest a government plan to resettle Rohingya Muslims, who were uprooted in last year’s ethno-religious clashes, according to local sources. (more…)

The lawyer of an Arakanese student activist, who is standing trial in Rangoon for sedition and inciting religious hatred, has slammed authorities for prosecuting his client without sufficient evidence. (more…)

The district court of Meikhtila has filed murder charges against six Muslims who were arraigned this week for allegedly killing a monk in the central Burma town in March.
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As temperatures rise, drought has taken hold in much of central Burma, with residents in several villages saying they fear for their health and livelihoods. (more…)

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has refused to leave an area near the Hat Gyi hydropower dam site in upper Myaing Gyi Ngu, Karen State, in defiance of an order by the government army. (more…)

The Irrawaddy magazine was sold on Tuesday in Burma for the first time since the once-banned journal was founded more than 20 years ago. (more…)

Myanmar Investment Commission’s Chairman Soe Thein who is also the union minister for the Presidential Office of Myanmar has effectively been replaced with the union minister Win Shein of the Finance and Revenue Ministry, sources say.
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Over 1,000 villagers face an escalating humanitarian crisis in northern Shan state, after being forced from their homes by fighting between government forces and ethnic minority rebels since late March, according to local sources. (more…)