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Myanmar to build houses for cyclone victims
Today, June 21, 2008, 3 hours ago
Myanmar is reclaiming land in cyclone-hit areas to build up to 100,000 low-cost houses for those rendered homeless in last month's Cyclone Nargis.

Myanmar to build low-cost houses for cyclone victims
Today, June 21, 2008, 3 hours ago
Yangon, June 21 (Xinhua) Myanmar is reclaiming land in cyclone-hit areas to build up to 100,000 low-cost houses for those rendered homeless in last month's Cyclone Nargis, weekly news magazine Voice reported Saturday.

Cindy McCain has harsh words for Myanmar
Today, June 21, 2008, 7 hours ago
John McCain said Myanmar leaders don’t value human life. “It’s just a terrible group of people that rule the country, and the frightening part is that their own people are dying of disease and starvati...

Police visit detained NLD members
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Police officers and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association warned the families of National League for Democracy members detained yesterday not to talk to anyone about the arrests.

The thugs are back in action - Wai Moe
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
After a welcome absence from the public scene in the past few months, the ugly thugs of Burma’s two pro-government militia movements, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and its si...

Change of guard in Burmese junta
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
While the junta officially announced the reshuffle of its cabinet ministers, the change of guard in its military command and Bureau of Special Operations was not disclosed, as usual. The junta’.. .

Suu Kyi in good health after cyclone: party official
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in good health when her personal doctor visited her after last month’s deadly cyclone, a senior official with her party told AFP on...

Foreign monks help reconstruct school, after junta’s cronies refuse - Lyeh Mon
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
With a firm belonging to a henchman of the Burmese military junta refusing to rebuild a middle school in Rangoon devastated by Cyclone Nargis, a group of foreign monks have come forward to do the need...

Refugees observe International Refugee Day - Saw Yan Naing
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Myint Swe, a Burmese refugee, and his family have lived in the Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, Thailand, for 12 years “We can’t go out when we want,- he said. “If we go outside th...

Thai PTTEP, Myanmar to sign deal on M9 gas field
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Thailand’s PTT Exploration ‘ Production PCL PTTE.BK will sign a heads of agreement on Monday with the Myanmar government to develop the offshore Block M9 natural gas project, a Thai ministr...

China, Myanmar, Daewoo consortium sign gas pacts in Myanmar
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Myanmar and a consortium, led by the Daewoo International Group Corporation, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Nay Pyi Taw Friday on sale a...

Women’s League of Burma demonstrates for Daw Suu Kyi in Bangladesh
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
The Women’s League of Burma in Bangladesh staged a demonstration in Dhaka on the occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 63rd birthday, calling for her immediate release from house arrest.

UN issues urgent plea for Myanmar
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
The U.N.’s World Food Program said it was facing a critical shortage of funds for its logistical operation in the country, including 10 helicopters that have so far delivered lifesaving material...

Rice discusses Burma with Ban - Lalit K Jha
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to discuss the current humanitarian crisis in Burma and the UN-led international efforts for restora...

Business as usual with the Burmese generals - Elliot Wilson
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Elliot Wilson explains why international condemnation of Burma’s brutal military leaders is so ineffectual: because many other countries are eager to do deals with them.

Firsthand tale of Burma relief frustrations - Tyche Hendricks
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
Nearly two months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, humanitarian relief groups are still struggling to get government permission to deliver life-saving aid to 2 million ...

Birthday present for Daw Suu: Waves of ‘Saffron Revolution’ - Nay Than Maung
Today, June 21, 2008, 17 hours ago
At that time, hundreds of monks were marching in procession by reciting Metta sutra in Rangoon’s monsoon rain and wind. The monk-led protest, tirelessly and assiduously striving for sweeping com...

fund crisis may halt airlifting relief supplies in Burma
Today, June 21, 2008, 20 hours ago
New Delhi - The use of helicopters for airlifting relief materials into Burma’s Irrawaddy delta could come to a halt by next week, unless more funds come in, the United Nations World Food Program sp...

Junta plans to launch new lottery
Today, June 21, 2008, 20 hours ago
Rangoon: The junta plans to launch a new lottery. The highest prize in the lottery will be Kyat 100 million. The launch is in August, said an official of the State Lottery Department on Friday. “Pl...

NLD meeting monitored by authorities
Today, June 21, 2008, 20 hours ago
Chiang Mai, New Delhi - The Burmese military junta authorities have been closely watching the National League for Democracy (NLD) youth wing meeting. Security personnel kept an eye while the meeting...

Understanding the SPDC General
Today, June 21, 2008, 20 hours ago
This paper was written for Western audience to help understand the Burmese way of Thinking especially the street-smart raw thinking of the Burmese generals in contrast to western ways of intellectual ...

Burmese refugees could be heading for P.E.I.
Today, June 21, 2008, 21 hours ago
The federal government announced Thursday it will allow 1,300 more Karen refugees from Burma into Canada, and some of them may be bound for Charlottetown. Charlottetown is one of only a few Canadian ...

Popular UN-backed Internet word game feeds Myanmar
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
Survivors of the cyclone which ravaged Myanmar last month will soon be receiving rice generated by the popular United Nations-backed Internet game that allows players to expand their word skills while...

UN food agency appeals for funding to keep aid helicopters flying
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
WFP ) says it is critically short of funds to keep a fleet of ten helicopters in the air in Myanmar, where they are playing a critical role in delivering relief supplies to the 2.4 million survivors o...

Thousands of Thai Protesters Besiege Government Compound
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 10:57:33 PM
Several thousand protesters pushed through a heavy police cordon around Thailand’s seat of government Friday, vowing to peacefully besiege it until the prime minister resigns. After initially scuf...

Corina Samuel, Myanmar, "We're getting ready to build again"
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 10:12:30 PM
INSEIN, 20 June 2008 (IRIN) - Seven weeks after Cyclone Nargis pummelled southern Myanmar - leaving over 130,000 dead or missing and 2.4 million destitute - survivors are struggling to pick up the pie...

Petition Filed Against Detention of Suu Kyi
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 7:08:06 PM
Claiming that the continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal and in violation of international law, Freedom Now, a Washington-based rights organization, has filed a petition against the Burmes...

Junta Detains 14 Calling for Release of Suu Kyi
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 7:08:03 PM
Burma’s ruling military junta detained 13 opposition party members who called for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she marked her 63rd birthday, witnesses said. The 13 peopl...

Junta continues tightening security outside NLD office
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 7:07:31 PM
The Burmese military junta authorities have beefed up security in front of the office of the opposition party - the National League for Democracy - in the former capital Rangoon. Eyewitnesses said t...

Myanmar reshuffles ministerial posts
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 6:15:25 PM
Yangon - The Myanmar minister most responsible for handling the government’s disaster relief efforts for victims of Cyclone Nargis has dropped his second job as immigration and population minister, st...

NLD Members Arrested at Suu Kyi Birthday Celebration
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 3:36:02 PM
At least four members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were arrested in Rangoon by Burmese authorities at about 11 am on Thursday while they were releasing sparrows and doves to mark of the ...

Asian Currency Speculators Await Moves by Central Banks
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 3:35:31 PM
Most Asian currencies rose slightly on Friday but remained in tight ranges as investors cautiously held back from placing bets as they awaited cues from central banks. The rise came even as the US dol...

Ruling Coalition in Malaysia Pledges Support for Prime Minister
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 3:35:24 PM
Malaysia’s embattled prime minister has won the backing of key allies who pledged to defeat a planned no-confidence vote against him by lawmakers of a small, rebellious party within the ruling coa...

Two months later, a struggle to get aid into Myanmar
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 3:05:39 PM
-- Nearly two months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, humanitarian relief groups are still struggling to get government permission to deliver life-saving aid to 2 million ...

Burma - “Continued repression in Burma is a stain on the world
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:33:36 AM
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 statement: Yet another solitary birthday for Aung San Suu Kyi;Yet another stain on world conscience Aung San Suu Kyi is today celebrating her 6...

Volunteers who bury the dead - Min Lwin
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:32 AM
Seven Burmese civilian volunteer aid workers, members of a team known as “The Group that Buries the Dead,- were arrested on June 14, following their efforts to bury victims of Cyclone Narg...

Myanmar cyclone threatens water birds in delta region
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:31 AM
Water birds in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta are under threat because much of their habitat was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, a report said Thursday.

Salt shortage adds to post-Nargis woes - Lawi Weng
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:30 AM
Amid worries that Burma’s food security could be at risk if farmers in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta don’t start planting rice soon, there are growing concerns that the country is also facing a ...

In hard times, pawnshops thrive - Aung Thet Wine
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:29 AM
Pale and very thin, the girl slowly removed a packet from her ragged school bag and handed it to the woman pawnbroker, who unfolded a tattered, faded, longyi. She inspected it carefully, before speaki...

Burma boots medics, citing no need - Simon Montlake
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:27 AM
Having led Thailand’s first medical mission last month to cyclone-ravaged Burma (Myanmar), Pichit Siriwan, a doctor, was on standby for another two-week tour. But last week he got word that Burm...

Maung Weik still under detention
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:26 AM
The young business tycoon Maung Weik is still believed to be under detention in allegedly connection with a drug trafficking case. Maung Weik (35) the Managing Director of “Maung Weik ‘ Fam...

US marks Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday, deplores her arrest
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:25 AM
The United States marked Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s June 19 birthday, noting that her continued imprisonment was a “deplorable situation- that must end.

U.N. condemns ongoing human rights violation in Myanmar - Siddique Islam
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 8:27:24 AM
The U.N. body also called on the government to stop making politically motivated arrests and to release all political prisoners immediately. In a resolution adopted without a vote, the council also c...

13 detained in Myanmar after pro-democracy support
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:18:19 AM
(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)A Myanmar activist shouts slogans while displaying a portrait of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday, June 1...

Who will save Burma’s women and children - Nilar Thein
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:00:56 AM
I have been separated from my daughter for nearly ten months. A midnight knock at our door in August last year changed our lives dramatically. The military junta’s security forces took my husban...

An appeal for Burma’s women
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:00:55 AM
IN A FRAUGHT coincidence, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be chairing a United Nations Security Council session on violence against women in conflict situations today, on the 63d birthday of ...

Did Nargis baptize Asean - Aung Zaw
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:00:53 AM
The Asean chief said during the 5th Asean Leadership Forum in Singapore that a new Asean had emerged from its achievements in responding to the challenges of the cyclone. “We are being baptised...

International community should do more about Burma - Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:00:52 AM
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today told a delegation of six women from Burma that the international community should do more to address the problems in Burma. The meeting took place on Aung San...

63rd Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi - Celebrating yet another Birthday Alone
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 5:00:52 AM
The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) extends its birthday wishes to Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as she celebrates her 63

FAO Presses for Urgent Assistance for Burmese Farmers
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 1:42:47 AM
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for urgent aid for thousands of farm families that suffered losses during last month’s cyclone in Burma. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while...

Nargis lingers, as Suu Kyi turns 63
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 1:34:22 AM
As the release of doves and offerings of flowers marked Aung San Suu Kyi’s 63rd birthday today in Rangoon, international organizations and activists remain persistent in linking Burma’s political stag...

Who was there to help
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 1:34:16 AM
In a squalid, bare room dozens of survivors from Cyclone Nargis sat and laid upon the concrete and thin mats of a monastery in Burma’s afflicted Rangoon Division - the complex’s hti standing ominous...

12 detained in Myanmar on Suu Kyi
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 1:27:57 AM
A Myanmar activist shouts slogans while displaying a portrait of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday, June 19, 2008, Suu Kyi’s 63rd ...

Survivors try to come to terms with their loss
Yesterday, June 20, 2008, 12:48:08 AM
TAUNG CAUNG, 19 June 2008 (IRIN) - Monasteries in Myanmar have long been revered as a place of refuge and healing and last month’s devastating cyclone - which left more than 130,000 people dead or mis...

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