Pivotal Burmese civil society leader Nay Win Maung has died of a heart attack, aged 50.

A close friend of the founder of the prominent Myanmar Egress group, Kyaw Linn Oo, told DVB that he was submitted to Rangoon General Hospital around 11pm last night. (more…)

Chiang Mai – U Lwin, 87, one of the founders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and a former Burmese military officer, died of natural causes on Tuesday night. (more…)

Chiang Mai – Known for his fiction and translations of foreign literature, Burmese writer Nat Nwe, 79, died a natural death at his home in North Dagon Township in Rangoon on Wednesday, according to a relative. (more…)

New Delhi – Funeral services for writer Maung Pe Nge, 67, who was imprisoned for writing about Burmese Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) Chairman Ne Win, were held on Sunday at Yeway Cemetery in Rangoon. (more…)

The renowned Burmese film director and writer Maung Wunna has died at his home in Rangoon after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. (more…)

Burmese poet and writer Moe Hein died of throat cancer in Rangoon on Thursday at the age of 68. (more…)

Thakin Ohn Myint, regarded as Aung San Suu Kyi’s mentor as well as her father’s colleague and confidant during Burma’s struggle for independence, died peacefully at his home in Rangoon on Friday morning. He was 92. (more…)

Chiang Mai– Former Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung (65), died early on Wednesday morning in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, while under detention, family sources said. (more…)

A leader of the New Mon State Party (NMSP), an ethnic armed rebel group that has a ceasefire agreement with Burma’s ruling junta, was assassinated on Saturday by an unidentified gunman, party sources said. (more…)

The elected representative of Thaketa township constituency 2 in Rangoon division, Dr Maung Maung Latt died on 22 February at the age of 59. (more…)

Burma’s veteran ethnic politician Dr. Saw Mara Aung died on Monday evening at his Rangoon residence, political allies said. (more…)

Dr Hla Aung, elected representative for Wundwin constituency-2 and an active National League for Democracy member, passed away this morning at the age of 66. (more…)

Daw Nu Nu Aye, one of the patrons and founders of democratic veterans, ex-member of All Burma Students Democratic Front and veteran of Burma’s air force, died in Thai border town Mae Sot, at the age of 70. (more…)

The well-known Burmese artist Wathone passed away this morning from lung problems at his house in Thingangyun township, Rangoon division, at the age of 61. (more…)

U Han Lin, who led the “long march to freedom and democracy” campaign in 2005 to highlight the plight of Burma, died from lung cancer on 26 September at the age of 57. (more…)

Famous actress and singer of yesteryears Daw May Shin, holder of the ‘Wunna Kyaw Htin’ title, died at her residence in Mandalay on Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. (more…)

Min Thein Kha, the brilliant creator of the sleuth ‘Surveillance Hnin Maung,’ passed away at the age of 70 today (1st August 2008). Born Maung Aung Tun, he wrote under the pseudonym Min Thein Kha since 1976. He wrote about a hundred novels and numerous short stories of which Manusari, Punna Ba Kun and Sanay Maung Maung were very popular among his readers. (more…)

The chairman of the Karen National Union ethnic rebel group, Saw Ba Thin Sein, died Thursday morning. (more…)

Renowned Burmese monk U Kovida passed away peacefully on Tuesday at 13:07 Eastern Standard Time in New York. He was 81 and had been hospitalized that morning suffering from heart disease. (more…)

Ludu Daw Amar, one of Burma’s most celebrated writers and journalists, passed away in the cardiac ward of Mandalay general hospital this morning at the age of 93, her son Ko Nyein Chan said. (more…)