BURMA DIGEST: Please kindly give us a brief background history of Burma’s nuclear programs.
Roland Watson: I’ve seen references to mineral surveys for Burma that were prepared as early as the 1920s. The country is known to be mineral-rich, although large areas are still not well explored. Burma has […]

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A gang-rape case in Putao
On February 2nd, 2007, shocking news broke out from the highland plains of Duk Dang Village, Putao. This day of infamy will go down in history as evidence of the State Peace and Development Council’s savagery, brutality, and oppression.
On February 2nd 2007, four Rawang school girls aged […]

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_ By Taisamyone
March 27th is usually celebrated as Burma’s Resistance Day, the day when the armed forces of Aung San rebelled against the Japanese invaders and joined the British and Allied forces to defeat the Imperial Japanese Army. It is the day that began resistance to foreign rule and the road to independence from […]

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_ By Dr San Oo Aung
According to Amnesty International, 300,000 children under the age of eighteen are currently participating in armed conflicts in more than thirty different countries on nearly every continent.
Myanmar is unique in the region, as the only country where government armed forces forcibly recruit and use children between the ages of […]

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Campaign News
As we all know, Burma’s SPDC military regime has been using child soldiers, and now Burma has become one of the world-top countries with largest number of child soldiers.
In addition to the usual risk and hardships related to a soldier-hood, child soldiers have to suffer emotional and psychological trauma because of being coercively […]

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_ Reported by Kuki Student Organization
Thirty students, mostly girls, were injured when a peaceful protest by Kuki Student Organisation (KSO) of , India, were dispersed by Indian Police using batons, water cannons and teargas shells near Manipur Parliament this week.
Some girl students who witness the brutality of the police […]

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_ By Victor Sang Khambil
The world is a battlefield where rivalry of men in open hostility opposed each other in search of each own paradise. On great mountains to deepest canyons and even in seas and open oceans, nothing hinders men to soldier through and write endless history. From building the nation to defending […]

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_ By Sao Yawd Serk

The Union of Burma was founded from the political cooperation of the Shan, Kachin, Chin, and Burmese leaders. It was liberated from Britain not because of Gen. Aung San’s one man work but because of the cooperation from the leaders of Shan, Kachin, Chin states and Burma Proper.
Gen. Aung San […]

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_ Ko Tin Maung
Recently in one of Myanmar Times issue, there was a news article about a lady from the People’s Republic of China’s achievement of Doctorate from Yangon University and she is the first foreign student being awarded such honor. We are proud for […]

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On 26th March 2007 Monday, there will be a Global Action Day against Shwe Gas Project in Burma.

Burmese democracy activists and their supporters in about 20 countries around the world will stand up for human rights and environmental protection by protesting against the Shwe Gas Project in Burma, targeting the Indian Government for their […]

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Chiang Mai, Thailand (13 March, 2007) – 88 Years History of Burmese Students’ Movement (Hardcover) by Aung Tun, the first book published presenting a historical account of the student movement in Burma, has been scheduled for release in early April. The title tells of “88 years”, but this book contains the drafts […]

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AEIOU Programme, Faculty of Medical Science in cooperation with Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine of the Chiang Mai University will be featuring:
Lipid mediators ( Prostaglandins and Sphingosine 1-phosphate)
in
vascular and tumor biology
by
Dr.Timothy Hla
Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Center for Vascular Biology
University of Connecticut, School of Medicine Farmington,
It is about S1P and COX and also some […]

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This week Burmese language articles are as followed:
( Burmese Fonts http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/fonts.htm )

Incompatible: Children & Army - Editorial: Khin Ma Ma Myo
Military Government Trying to Hide Human Rights Abuses - Feature Article : Lwin Aung Soe
Suggestions for National Reconciliation, part 2 - Feature Article: Captain Nay Thu (Retired)
How to Respond to Human Rights Abuses, part […]

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A threat to regional peace and security? 
_ By Taisamyone
Anyone who has looked at the horrific effect of the relatively small atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki will understand the need to prevent the proliferation of nuclear bombs (which are more powerful than atomic bombs).  Too many governments […]

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Candid Commentary
_ By Dr. Tayza
Whenever you see a policeman, a local bobby, walking about at night bearing a fire-arm, patrolling on the streets, do you feel safer or do you feel frightened?
Whenever you see crazy criminals running and roving around threatening people with fire-arms, do […]

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