| Burmese journalists have welcomed the junta for allowing them to cover the meeting between two US diplomats and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with...
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| (Editorial) The administration of US President Barack Obama has followed up its announced policy of engagement with Burma’s military regime by sending a high level delegation into...
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| A new charge was added to the existing ones against Burmese born American, Kyaw Zaw Lwin (alias) Nyi Nyi Aung by a district court in Rangoon on Friday, his attorney... |
Dialogue between the Burmese military regime, opposition parties and ethnic leaders was the need of the hour for political reforms in Burma, Scot Marciel, US Deputy Assistant Secretary,...
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| Six prisoners including, former Foreign Minister U Win Aung have died in a week in the infamous Insein Prison, Rangoon, it is learnt. Prison sources said that U Win Aung... |
Thai security agencies continued surprise raids and search of houses of those suspected of being connected with the 'Karen National Union' (KNU) yesterday. A total of...
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| The Burmese military junta’s so-called developmental projects including dam constructions, gas explorations and mining of natural resources have severely harmed...
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Washington is ready to improve relations with Burma if its military leaders take concrete steps towards restoring democracy, a senior US diplomat told a press conference in Bangkok...
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| Mounting maintenance costs have pushed up the toll tax on the Rangoon-Mandalay highway twofold, representatives of two companies responsible for the upkeep of part of...
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Burma’s main opposition party – the National League for Democracy – on Wednesday told the visiting United States diplomats to include the revision of the 2008 constitution...
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| Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met visiting US diplomats for over an hour and also made a rare appearance for the press for a photo shoot at the... |
(Research) Mizzima has compiled a list of prospective 2010 electoral candidates, and their respective geographic constituencies, comprising current cabinet members and senior military...
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| On the second death anniversary of Ko Ko Win, who was brutally beaten to death by the junta backed 'Swanahshin' during the monk-led protests in September 2007, his family offered...... |
Members of the Rangoon division National League for Democracy, Burma’s main opposition party, are optimistic about their office reopening after the 1990 Election Commission on Monday called...
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| Burma’s military generals are gearing up to hold their top quarterly meeting in the third and fourth week of this month, sources in Naypyidaw said. The quarterly meeting is likely... |
The whereabouts of poet Khant Min Htet, also the layout designer of Rangoon based Ahlinkar Wutyee Journal, picked up by the police about two weeks ago from his home,...... |
| Burmese junta supremo Snr Gen Than Shwe is making yet another trip to Laputta and Mawlamyinekyun towns in cyclone devastated Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday. Sources in...
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The National League for Democracy (NLD) would stress on revising the 2008 constitution during discussions with the high level US delegation visiting Burma. A four-member US delegation,...
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| A defiant Free Funeral Service Association Chairman Actor Kyaw Thu has made it clear that he would not appear before the South Dagon Township court even if summoned...
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The Myanmar Tourism Ministry has said three tourists to Burma died of heart disease in the month of October alone. German Vahnifch Joathin (60), Spaniard Jesus Uriutia Lopes (78) and...... |
| The World Health Organization’s (WHO) office in India on Saturday wrapped up six days of Ayurveda training for Burmese experts in traditional medicine in Varanasi in the state of...... |
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Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
(Opinion) These days everybody is talking about Aung San Suu Kyi and the US-Burma relationship with high and low hopes. Most of them are favourably optimistic..... |
(Editorial) The administration of US President Barack Obama has followed up its announced policy of engagement with Burma’s military regime by sending a high ... |
(Interview) During their two-day visit to Burma, US Assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell and Undersecretary Scot Marciel met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nati... |
(Commentary) The Thai Government recently reiterated its policy to formalise the status of around two million migrants from Burma working here - nationality ver... |
(Commentary) On May 10, 2008 the military junta ruling Burma held a constitutional referendum to approve a new constitution. Perhaps the results of the referend... |
(Commentary) When it comes to Burma, there are four strategically important nations and blocs - China, the ASEAN, India and America and the EU. News coming from... |
General Than Shwe wants to acquire nuclear arms because of the United States attack on Iraq. He reckons that if only Iraq possessed nuclear arms in addition to ... |
(Interview) The Myanmar Motion Picture Association-led selection of youth director for the Japan-Mekong Amateur Director contest was held in the first week of t... |
We would like to present the view of Burmese soldiers on behalf of officers and other ranks from within the Burmese military. The West tends to view all Burmese... |
(Commentary) Burma seems a long way from Obama’s White House compared to when Laura Bush was there, but Burma still holds an important spotlight during this h... |
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INSIDE BURMA
Burmese journalists have welcomed the junta for allowing them to cover the meeting between two US diplomats and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with...
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A new charge was added to the existing ones against Burmese born American, Kyaw Zaw Lwin (alias) Nyi Nyi Aung by a district court in Rangoon on Friday, his attorney... |
Six prisoners including, former Foreign Minister U Win Aung have died in a week in the infamous Insein Prison, Rangoon, it is learnt. Prison sources said that U Win Aung... |
The Burmese military junta’s so-called developmental projects including dam constructions, gas explorations and mining of natural resources have severely harmed...
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Washington is ready to improve relations with Burma if its military leaders take concrete steps towards restoring democracy, a senior US diplomat told a press conference in Bangkok...
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ANALYSIS
(Analysis) As the saying goes “Silence is Golden”. India’s policy of maintaining her silence over events unfolding in its eastern neighbouring country seems to have finally...
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(Analysis) In a rare gesture, the Burmese military junta last week granted detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi her request to meet diplomats from the United States,...
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(Analysis) The United States is seeking to more actively engage with Burma’s military rulers, but made it clear they will not repeal sanctions unless the regime shows that it is... |
(Analysis) Accepting the failure of sanctions to usher in political change, the Burmese opposition and analysts said, the new US policy on the Southeast Asian nation could be...
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(Analysis) The junta’s most recent amnesty to over 7000 prisoners has triggered myriad speculations with some believing it is another attempt at mollifying the international community,...
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WORLD
A United States top level “fact-finding mission” is due to arrive in Rangoon on Monday. The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, Kurt Campbell and the US Ambassador to... |
A Burmese refugee women’s group, Kumjing Storytellers, and a renowned detained poet, Saw Wei, have been named among the shortlisted finalists for the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize,...
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The United States State Department has once again produced a report critical of the right to religious freedom inside military ruled Burma. Monday’s release of the Bureau of Democracy,...... |
A United Nations human rights expert on Thursday announced he will make another visit to military-ruled Burma, whose human rights situation remains “alarming”. Tomás Ojea Quintana,...
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Burmese pro-democracy activists on Wednesday urged the United Nations to use strong language to condemn the Burmese military regime in its forthcoming General Assembly...
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INTERVIEW
(Interview) During their two-day visit to Burma, US Assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell and Undersecretary Scot Marciel met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD)...... |
(Interview) The Myanmar Motion Picture Association-led selection of youth director for the Japan-Mekong Amateur Director contest was held in the first week of this month. It selected 18...
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(Interview) The Thingangyun Township National League for Democracy (NLD) party chairman U Tin Mya (74), who was accused of being involved in a bombing case and handed...
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(Interview) The sudden resignation of six high ranking officers of the Kachin Independent Organisation, the largest Kachin ceasefire armed group, including Vice-President (2)...
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(Interview) As Aung San Suu Kyi awaits her fate at the hands of the Burma’s military regime, more Asian leaders are lending their voices to the international demand for her...... |
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Thein Sein "feels optimistic that she can also contribute to the process of national reconciliation,"
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva quoted Burmese Prime Minister as saying
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