China executes two for smuggling drugs from Myanmar

Shenyang (China), June 25 (Xinhua) A court in China’s northeastern Liaoning province said Thursday that it had executed two men convicted of heading a gang that smuggled drugs from Myanmar.
Big News Network.com

Dhaka to protest Yangon’s maritime stand in Bay of Bengal

Bangladesh is set to protest to the UN against Myanmar’s claim to the territorial sea in the Bay of Bengal, where maritime boundaries have caused disputes and led to stand-offs.
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Gambari Sets Out for Burma

UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari left New York for Burma on Wednesday for talks with the Burmese regime and to prepare the ground for a possible visit by UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon early next m…
The Irrawaddy

Malaysia may deport Myanmar activists

RIGHTS groups yesterday expressed concern that 14 Myanmar activists detained by Malaysian police for holding a protest to mark democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday may be deported. They also f…
Brunei Times

Myanmar’s ’secret tunnels’ revealed

A television channel run by Myanmar exiles in Norway has obtained pictures it says show the construction of a network of secret, bomb-proof tunnels being built by Myanmar’s ruling military with the he…
Al Jazeera

UN envoy heads to Myanmar

The U.N. special envoy to Myanmar is heading to the country as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon debates a possible visit to the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation.U.N. officials said Ibrahim Gambari l…
eTaiwan News

Bangladesh to protest in UN against Myanmar’s claim over sea

Bangladesh will protest in the UN against Myanmar’s claim to a territorial sea in the Bay of Bengal, especially that of the “baseline” which is needed to delimit its maritime border, officials in Dhak…
Hindustan Times

Myanmar denies DPRK cargo vessel heading for Myanmar

The Myanmar official media have denied the allegation that cargo vessel Kang Nam, owned by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Mingpao port of DPRK for Myanmar on June 17 as rumored…
People’s Daily

North Korean vessel due in Yangon not suspect cargo ship

Yangon – A North Korean ship due to arrive in Yangon this weekend from India is not the Kang Nam, a vessel suspected of carrying illicit weapons, Myanmar state media reported Thursday. “MV Dumangang, …
Earth Times

Burmese pythons slithering their way north

AIKEN, S.C. — One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.As they were re…
Miami Herald

SuKyi lawyers urge court to allow witnesses

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.
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Palpable tension between junta and ethnic armed groups – Solomon

The Burmese Army has significantly increased its military presence in northern and eastern Burma, where ethnic ceasefire armed groups are based, following their widespread rejection of the junta’s p…
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Myanmar says no information on tracked NKorean ship

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.
BurmaNet