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By Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf, the author, most recently, of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and the forthcoming Give me Liberty: How to Become an American Revolutionary, is co-founder of the American Freedom Campaign, a US democracy movement.
NEW YORK : Is this the Age of the Conspiracy Theory? Plenty of [...]

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- reported by Thandar Htike & Maung Kaung
The number of political prisoners in Burma has almost doubled in the past year, despite calls from the United Nations Security Council for their release.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has reached a total of 13 years in detention on October 24th 2007.
And despite Burmese military junta’s blatant human [...]

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- reported by Maung Kaung
The number of political prisoners in Burma has almost doubled in the past year, despite calls from the United Nations Security Council for their release.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has reached a total of 13 years in detention on October 24th 2007.
And despite Burmese military junta’s blatant human rights abuses, China [...]

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By Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC – Even as the squeeze in interbank lending has started to ease after the rescue of financial systems across the advanced countries, falling economic indicators have sent stock markets tumbling. Pressures on emerging-market countries, which were once thought by many to have [...]

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YANGON (AFP)–A Myanmar court has sentenced nine pro-democracy activists – already being held in detention – to six months in jail for disrupting their trial on other charges, a lawyer said Thursday.
Aung Thein, a lawyer working for the National League for Democracy, or NLD, party, said it was the first time the nine, including well-known [...]

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By Chris Patten

Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords.
LONDON – Around the world, America’s presidential election campaign has attracted as much [...]

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By Richard C. Holbrook

Richard Holbrooke, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, is president of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. He writes a monthly column for The Washington Post. Richard Holbrooke isalso the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia.
NEW YORK – [...]

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YANGON (AFP) – A man has been arrested in Myanmar after making a phone call threatening to blow up government offices, state media said Tuesday, as security remained high after a string of blasts in Yangon.
Tin Myint, 41, was held on Friday, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported, three hours after he allegedly threatened [...]

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By Antonio Maria Costa

Antonio Maria Costa is Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
NEW YORK: The world is speeding up. Communications, travel, and productivity are increasing. For some people, synthetic drugs have become a way to deal with today’s fast and competitive times.
Around the world, in order to enhance performance, people [...]

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By Richard C. Holbrooke and Paddy Ashdown

Richard Holbrooke, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, is president of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. He writes a monthly column for The Washington Post. Richard Holbrooke was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.
Paddy Ashdown was the international community’s [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said it began enforcing Monday a law seeking to tighten an import ban on gems from military-ruled Myanmar in a bid to deprive the junta of precious revenue.
The Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE Act was approved unanimously by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in [...]

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AP
SEOUL, South Korea -Myanmar’s foreign minister arrived in Pyongyang on Monday and met his North Korean counterpart, more than one year after two of the world’s most repressive governments resumed diplomatic ties.

Foreign Minister Nyan Win met his North Korean counterpart, Pak Ui Chun, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang after his arrival at the [...]

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DPA
Yangon – A team of retired Brazilian football players headed for Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta Monday to visit victims of Cyclone Nargis after holding a charity match to raise money for ongoing relief operations, officials at the Myanmar Football Federation said.
The 23-member Brazilian team was scheduled to visit Kyugyangon and Prapon, two districts that were hard-hit [...]

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(Xinhua: 2008-10-26)
YANGON — The state-run Myanmar Economic Bank (MEB) has set March 31, 2009 as a deadline date for the public to claim for the refund of deposits in the former Myanmar Universal Bank (MUB), one of the three major private banks closed by the government more than three years ago, the local weekly Voice [...]

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