Burma’s
communists plan uprising
The Communist Party of Burma (CPB), disintegrated in 1998 by the mutiny of its ethnic group members, has been rebounding and currently organizing a country-wide uprising plan called Demo-2006 against the State governing State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). |
Tourists
flock to military-ruled Myanmar
Yangon: Pausing to photograph Buddhist monks at Yangon's glittering Shwedagon pagoda, Spaniard Carlos Iribas explains why he was drawn to military-ruled Myanmar, which has emerged as one of Asia's fastest growing tourist destinations. |
SETTLEMENT
IN PRINCIPLE REACHED IN UNOCAL CASE
December 13, 2004, Washington, DC – EarthRights International is thrilled to announce that a tentative settlement agreement has been reached in the Unocal case. ERI is ecstatic at this development. The parties, both the plaintiffs and Unocal,... |
Burma
junta must stop arresting political prisoners
The spokesman of Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), Ko Bo Kyi told DVB that Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) must not only release all political prisoners who have been detained unfairly, it must also stop arresting the new ones. |
| Unocal
strikes deal with Myanmar villagers over alleged slave labour use
LOS ANGELES, Dec 13 (AFP) - US-based Unocal Corp. will pay to boost living conditions and protect villagers near Myanmar's Yadana gas pipeline under the settlement of a key human rights abuse case, the parties said Monday. |
Highway linking China and Myanmar to be rebuilt Kunming: A highway linking China's southwest border province of Yunnanwith the neighboring country of Myanmar will be upgraded soon, so as tofurther boost exchanges between China and the southeast Asia, local government sources said. |
World Buddhist conference opens in Myanmar despite boycott call A world Buddhist summit opened in politically-isolated Myanmar amid pomp and ceremony on Thursday despite a boycott call, with the military regime's new premier calling for an end to "the bullying of the weak". |
Yawdserk: War unlikely between Rangoon and Wa Rangoon will keep on crowding, but the ceasefire groups including Wa will keep on dodging, thereby disappointing Burma watchers who are anxiously predicting an imminent showdown between the two sides, said Col Yawdserk, leader of the Shan State Army... |
We will not give up our weapons, say ceasefire groups in Burma Representatives of five ceasefire groups, which signed the cessation of hostility agreements with the Burmese army, based in Shan State were summoned by one of the top leaders of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), |
Ceasefire groups told to help round off roadmap The 8 ceasefire and militia groups that met the ruling military council's Number Three man on 4 December were urged to help speed up the 7-phase roadmap to a successful conclusion, according ceasefire sources from northern Shan State, Hawkeye reports from the border: |
Myanmar leader assures ethnic peace groups of no policy change Yangon: Myanmar leader Thein Sein has assured leaders of five more main ethnic peace groups in northern Shan state that the government would not change its policy toward them and would continue to assist their regions' development. |
Rangoon to Meet with Ceasefire Groups Lt-Gen Thein Sein, secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, is scheduled to meet this weekend with leaders of ceasefire groups from northern Shan State. Talks will center around the National Convention, the assembly charged with drafting a new constitution. |
Younger corps of generals find their way to the top The toppling of Khin Nyunt and his group has opened the way for a new generation of officers loyal to the hardline Than Shwe and Maung Aye Burma's Prime Minister Soe Win has assured Asian leaders at the Asean summit .... |
Myanmar prison releases a "smokescreen": media group Bangkok: Press freedom groups on Wednesday dismissed Myanmar's prison release programme of more than 9,000 inmates as a "smokescreen" and said a cameraman was the only one of 13 detained journalists freed. |
US may boycott ASEAN meetings when Myanmar takes over helm in 2006 Washington: The United States has warned it might boycott ASEAN meetings when Myanmar takes over the chairmanship of the Southeast Asian grouping in 2006, unless the military-ruled state improves its human rights record. |
Burma begins crackdown India's insurgent camps NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 28 - Burma's Head of State Senior General Than Shwe has kept his promise. Barely two weeks after his visit, Burmese forces have cracked down on North-East insurgent camps in its territory, showing signs that India’s decade-long diplomatic effort is finally paying off. |
ASEAN MPs urge Burma be banned from chairmanship ASEAN is growing impatient with Burma Parliamentarians from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have said Burma should be prevented from taking over the chairmanship of the organisation, scheduled for 2006, |
Suu Kyi's house arrest 'extended' Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her house arrest extended, her party said on Monday.Aung San Suu Kyi has been held since May 2003, after clashes between her supporters and pro-government forces in northern Burma. |
ILO Sends Team to Burma to Test Attitude of New Government The International Labor Organization will send a team to Burma to discuss allegations of forced labor with the military government after the replacement last month of the Asian nation's prime minister, General Khin Nyunt. |
Burma's refugee children in Bangladesh want to go back home Refugee children on Saturday expressed their craving for going back to their homeland. They expressed their desire while addressing a meeting organised herein observance of the Universal Children's Day. |
Burma and B'desh to help India deal with insurgents: India's PM UWAHATI, NOV 23 (PTI) - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said Burma nd Bangladesh will help India deal with the northeast insurgent outfits heltering in those countries. |
Malaysia tells Burma to show "tangible" proof it's serious about democracy Malaysia says military-ruled Burma should show "tangible" proof it is moving toward democracy to reassure an increasingly skeptical and frustrated international community. |
Burma to relaunch democracy talks Burma has announced that the military government will reconvene a national meeting aimed at drafting a new constitution in February next year. The country's military junta says the conventions are part of their roadmap for democracy. |
Asia at critical stage of AIDS battle as infections top eight million The booming sex trade has contributed to an HIV/AIDS crisis in Asia with more than eight million people now living with the virus and numbers rising sharply among women, the United Nations reported on Tuesday. |