Posted in Burma News on Oct 5th, 2008 No Comments »
reported by Help without Frontiers
The news of the fightings arriving from the area around the villages of Pah Bu Hla Hta and Kha Hser, both situated approx. 120 km south of Mae Sot just across the border in Burma, are alarming. A Karen splinter group DKBA and the Burmese Army SPDC have united their forces […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Rumours are flying in Burma in recent days that Myanmar Junta Supremo Gen. Than Shwe is dying from an advanced stage of colon/large intestine cancer.
Some say that he will not survive beyond 2008.
Rumours are that he will retire soon and his deputy Gen. Maung Aye will take over; everything has been arrange for a smooth […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 5th, 2008 No Comments »
By Norman Robespierre (Asia Times Online)
YANGON (Quote: ATO) - A recent flurry of high-level contacts between North Korea and Myanmar raises new nuclear proliferation concerns between the two pariah states, one of which already possesses nuclear-weapon capabilities and the other possibly aspiring.
At least three delegations led by flag-level officers from Myanmar’s army have traveled to […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 5th, 2008 No Comments »
By AFP on Sunday, October 05, 2008
Myanmar authorities have urged people not to use Chinese milk and dairy products in the wake of the contamination scandal, state media reported on Sunday.
The announcement comes after the country’s food and drug watchdog destroyed 16 tonnes of imported Chinese baby formula tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, which […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Yangon (AFP news) : An eye doctor has visited Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home, where she has been detained for most of the past two decades, her party said on Friday.
The specialist accompanied the Nobel peace laureate’s general physician and his assistant on a rare visit to her lakeside home […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
GENEVA (AFP) — The new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for the release of Myanmar’s political prisoners Thursday as she launched a ‘justice and dignity’ week for detainees around the world.
“We believe that there are still 2,000 political prisoners in Myanmar,” said Pilaly in her first press conference since taking office.
“We […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
From Asia News
Yangon (AsiaNews) : The Kachin ethnic resistance movement KIA group denounces the population’s lack of involvementin the construction of new hydroelectric plants. They have blocked the work, but have withdrawn their militias after the payment of a “tax”. Environmentalists fear possible damage to the ecosystem.
The Kachin ethnic resistance movement is opposing the construction […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmar authorities have temporarily suspended publication of two weekly journals for “violation of the rules”, according to editors.
They said the ruling junta’s censorship board withdrew licences for The Action Times and True News in a first warning to both publications.
“The suspension will start from October 8 for one month for the Action […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s military authorities have detained a prominent former journalist and political ally of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition party said Thursday.
Police took 64-year-old Ohn Kyaing from his home Wednesday evening, said Nyan Win, the spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
“The reason why he was detained was […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar authorities are building a seaside airport in the southwest region laid waste by a cyclone five months ago, a local weekly paper reported Wednesday.
They hope to boost tourism at Ngwesaung beach, in the country’s Irrawaddy delta near the Bay of Bengal, 7Day said.
“The hotel authorities in Ngwesaung beach said an airport […]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
by P. Parameswaran Wed Oct 1, 4:30 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An independent US group is to carry out unprecedented studies to determine whether Myanmar’s military rulers, accused of rampant human rights abuses, have committed international crimes.
The Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University’s school of law said it would launch the research based on […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Press Statement
September 23, 2008
Shan groups denounce regime’s mass prisoner release as a publicity stunt
We, community based organizations from Shan State, denounce the regime’s recent mass prisoner release as a mere publicity stunt, and demand the immediate, unconditional release of all political prisoners in Burma, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the nine Shan State […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
AP news
The UN General Assembly has rejected a request from the winners of Myanmar’s 1990 elections to replace representatives of the country’s current military junta at the United Nations.
The UN’s legal chief said credentials must be issued […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
by P. Parameswaran Sat Sep 27, 10:26 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - World powers have called on Myanmar’s military rulers to make “tangible” progress on political reforms ahead of a planned visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the country.
The first ministerial meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and mostly […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
AP news, Sat Sep 27, 1:02 PM ET
YANGON, Myanmar - About 100 Buddhist monks in a western Myanmar city staged a peaceful protest march Saturday to mark the anniversary of last year’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
Meanwhile, in the country’s biggest city, Yangon, recently released political prisoners helped celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Sat Sep 27, 5:07 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. group on Myanmar vowed on Saturday to keep the world spotlight on the troubled country and to press the military rulers of the former Burma to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The “Friends of the Secretary General on Myanmar” […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Sat Sep 27, 7:06 AM ET
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar police kept guard outside the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party Saturday as it marked its 20th anniversary, joined by the regime’s longest-held prisoner.
Plain clothes officers took pictures of people arriving for the ceremony, attended by some 200 members of the National League of […]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
By CARLEY PETESCH
AP
UNITED NATIONS -Nations concerned about Myanmar called on its military government Saturday to release all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and to start talking with the opposition.
The so-called Group of Friends, which includes the United States, Britain, China, Southeast Asian countries and the European Union, also called on the […]