UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet senior members of the party of Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits Myanmar this week but has no plans yet to see the opposition leader, a party spokesman said. (more…)
North Korea is suspected to have illegally exported weapons to Burma via overland routes through China to avoid naval detection or interception, a South Korean newspaper said yesterday. (more…)
Burmese politicians have expressed fear that Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Burma will achieve little without concerted attempts to meet National League for Democracy members, including Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported more than a 100 percent increase in HIV-AIDS deaths in Mon State in the last two months. (more…)
A large number of houses near the Myitkyina airport have to be demolished for its expansion. U Myo Myint, a secretary of the Kachin State Peace and Development Council told this to heads of Aye Mya Tharyar ward yesterday following measurements of the airport runway and the need for its expansion on June 28, said locals. (more…)
A large number of houses near the Myitkyina airport have to be demolished for its expansion. U Myo Myint, a secretary of the Kachin State Peace and Development Council told this to heads of Aye Mya Tharyar ward yesterday following measurements of the airport runway and the need for its expansion on June 28, said locals. (more…)
Burma’s state-run media reported on Wednesday that Snr-Gen Than Shwe, the head of the Burmese junta, has congratulated the recently re-elected president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (more…)
The United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon was urged on Tuesday by the National League for Democracy to meet detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his proposed two-day visit to Burma from July 3 to 4. (more…)
Media watchdogs have condemned the sentencing of a Burmese journalist reporting on the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, and said that coverage of the trial is “very much biased” with reporters subject to intimidation. (more…)
The Burmese military authorities have forcibly taken away most of the relief material, meant for local Chin people, who had suffered due to a fire in their village last April. The relief material had been supplied by their supporters from abroad. (more…)
Burma’s highest court rejected an appeal Monday by Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers to reinstate two key witnesses in a trial that could send the pro-democracy leader to prison for five years. (more…)
Several monks on Saturday refrained from going out to collect swan offering in Myingyan town in Mandalay division, following a visit and offerings made by junta’s Minister of Industries (1) Aung Thawng. (more…)
Authorities on Sunday detained a journalist who tried to take a photograph of the 13-year old girl who authorities have announced is suffering from the first detected instance of A/H1N1, or swine flu, in Burma. (more…)
United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in military-ruled Myanmar Friday to explore the possibility of a visit next month by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (more…)
A witness disqualified from testifying in the defense of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday following his appeal that it was not “ordinary lawyers” making key decisions in the trial but government cronies. (more…)
Myanmar’s national police chief said Thursday that the American man who swam uninvited to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was the “main culprit” in the case filed against her. (more…)
Monk Ashin Gambira, arrested and sentenced to 68 years in prison for his lead role in anti-junta protests in September 2007 has had his prison term reduced by five years by a district court in Insein prison on Thursday. (more…)
Six villages located near the proposed site of a hydropower plant in Burma’s western Arakan state have been displaced by Burmese military, with added concerns that civilians nearby will be forced to help build the plant. (more…)
Lawyers for democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi have urged Myanmar’s top court to allow two key aides to testify at her trial, despite efforts by the ruling junta to bar them from the witness box. (more…)
Myanmar’s state media said Wednesday it was expecting the arrival of a rice-earing North Korean ship but had no news about a vessel being tracked by a US Navy destroyer under new UN sanctions. (more…)