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G8 Pushes Burma to Accept Foreign Cyclone Aid
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
The Group of Eight wealthy nations put pressure on Burma to let in more foreign relief workers after a devastating cyclone last month, after accusations it had obstructed aid, a Japanese official said...

Ban Discusses Burma with Indian, China, Indonesian Ambassadors
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the ambassadors of India, China and Indonesia and UN Special Envoy on Burma Ibrahim Gambari on Thursday to discuss the political and humanitarian situation in...

Thousands in Delta Told to Relocate
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Thousands of villagers in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta townships of Bogalay and Laputta are being told by local authorities to relocate to new sites, according to local residents in both region...

Lone Demonstrator Arrested at Rangoon City Hall
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
A lone women demonstrator was arrested on Wednesday in Rangoon, after she called for the release of political prisoners including democracy icon Aung San Su Kyi.A worker near Rangoon City Hall confirm...

Campaign to Stop Child Labor Kicks Off
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
A four-day campaign in Samut Sakorn Province in central Thailand and four provinces in South Thailand will raise awareness of child labor abuses from Thursday through Sunday, sponsored by The Internat...

G-8 Nations Pledge Continued Aid for Burma
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Concerns about instability in Afghanistan, rising oil and food prices, and the lack of political progress in Burma were raised in talks in Japan by foreign ministers from the Group of Eight industrial...

Thai Prime Minister Survives Parliamentary No-confidence Vote
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Thailand’s prime minister survived a no-confidence vote on Friday, fending off opposition accusations of incompetence, mismanagement and yielding national sovereignty. The parliamentary opposition...

Oil and Global Credit Worries Drive Asian Currencies Down
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Asian currencies took another hit on Friday from soaring oil prices and renewed anxiety about global credit woes, prompting central banks in the Philippines and Thailand to intervene by selling dollar...

G8 call on Burma to improve position
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Group of Eight foreign ministers have agreed that Burma needs to improve its position on aid and make progress towards democracy, an official from host Japan says.Ministers from the eight industrial p...

Burma blocks telecoms help
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Two teams of foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been forced to leave cyclone-hit Burma. The members of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) left the count...

Hollywood stars launch campaign to pressure junta
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
Bangkok, 25 June (AKI) - Hollywood stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt have begun an advertising campaign calling on countries in the region to pressure Burma’s government to accept more cyclone aid. ...

Flash mob for Burma hits London
Today, June 27, 2008, 2 hours ago
A “flash mob” for Burma will hit London tonight as campaigners urge commuters to remember victims of the cyclone and decades of human rights abuses in the country. Fifty-three days af...

Myanmar journalist arrested for burying cyclone dead: watchdog
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
A Myanmar editor has been arrested and his magazine closed after he travelled to the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta to help bury people killed in the storm, media rights watchdogs said Thursday.

Burma cyclone survivors suffer food shortage - Amy Kazmin
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
Almost a third of households in the cyclone-hit Irra­waddy delta say they have no food stocks, while a further fifth say they have just enough for a day, highlighting the urgent need for continuing f...

TSF withdraws from Burma after junta restricts movement
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
New Delhi - A French non-governmental organization, Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF), which had rushed to Burma to help in reconstruction in the wake of the killer cyclone, left the country, as the ruli...

Myanmar stresses prompt repair of cyclone-ravaged jetties in Yangon
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
The Myanmar authorities have stressed the prompt repair of remaining cyclone-ravaged jetties in Yangon to ensure speedy and normal inflow of commodities from other parts of the country, the official n...

New curriculum excludes general Aung San - Naw Say Phaw
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
The military regime in Burma has removed a speech and writings by the late independence hero general Aung San and peace architect Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing from this year’s basic high school curriculum.

Four Burmese athletes to join Olympic Games
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
New Delhi - At least four Burmese athletes will be joining the Beijing Summer Olympics.  Of a total of six athletes who applied, four have been allowed to join the game to be held in Beijing...

Junta’s drug control claim irrelevant to ground situation: Researcher - Mungpi
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
Burma’s Minister for Home Affairs and Chairman of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control, Maj-Gen Maung Oo, on Thursday said the drug eradication programme has effectively brought down cul...

Bangladesh seeks Myanmar farm land on lease
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
Bangladesh urged Myanmar on Thursday to lease it farm land near the border for rice cultivation to meet its growing food demand, an official said.

Bush discusses Burma with UN Ambassadors - Lalit K Jha
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
US President George W Bush, in a meeting with the ambassadors of the permanent members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, discussed the Burmese junta, the ongoing humanitarian crisis and the pol...

United Bank signs pact with Myanmar banks
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
KOLKATA: The Kolkata-based United Bank of India (UBI) has signed agreements with three foreign banks for facilitating border trade between India and Myanmar. A UBI release said that these agreements w...

APME honors AP coverage of Myanmar cyclone
Today, June 27, 2008, 6 hours ago
Associated Press Managing Editors Association ."No other story in this category was as difficult or as dangerous to report," APME officers and board members said after judging more than a dozen major ...

Myanmar cyclone survivors proved tough, experts say
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:51:45 PM
—Dire warnings that cyclone survivors in Myanmar might fall prey to disease and starvation failed to take into account the survival instincts of those affected, aid agencies and disaster experts...

Resettlement of Burmese Refugees from Thailand Tops 30,000
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:42:13 PM
The United Nations says more than 30,000 Burmese refugees living in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what it calls the world’s largest resettlement operation.The U.N. High Commissioner ...

Cambodian Political Parties Begin Election Campaign
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:32:20 PM
Cambodia’s political parties kicked off clamorous campaigning on Thursday for next month’s general election, which is almost certain to see the return to power of Asia’s longest-serving le...

Tibet Open to Foreign Tourists Again
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:32:09 PM
Foreign tourists are being allowed back into Tibet, three months after the Chinese government banned such visits following violent anti-government riots ahead of the Olympics. The first two new arriva...

Anti-drug campaign by Kachin students
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:32:02 PM
Ruili - Anti-drug campaign posters were pasted at crowded places in Myitkyina, Kachin State this morning, an opposition Kachin student organization said. ‘All Kachin Students Union’ (AKSU) pasted...

MSF draws attention to need for clean drinking water for cyclone survivors
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:32:00 PM
New Delhi - Access to clean drinking water remains one of the biggest challenges in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, with hundreds of wells contaminated in most townships in Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta,...

Reporter charged with
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 11:31:59 PM
A reporter of a Rangoon-based weekly journal-’Ecovision’, has been charged with ‘committing crimes against public tranquility’ and ‘inciting hatred against the government’. Ma Eint Khaing Oo, of ...

“Lightning” strike brings help to cyclone survivors
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 10:43:21 PM
‘I arrived in Myanmar on 7 May, the second day after commercial flights resumed, with a hard-to-come-by stock of water purification tablets,’ he said. In addition, Maung Thant was able to purchase 100...

Myanmar seizes over 100 kg heroin
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:07:13 PM
The Myanmar authorities seized 103.8 kg heroin and 1,690 kg opium in one year and a half from January 2007 to June 2008, according to a latest figures disclosed at a ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw Thursday t...

Myanmar to strive for realizing poppy-free target by 2014
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 3:54:16 PM
Myanmar Police Chief Brigadier-General Khin Yi told the press in Nay Pyi Taw on Thursday that the country will strive for the realization of its target to become poppy-free nation by 2014. Khin Yi mad...
Burmese Journalists Banned from Asean Press Conference
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 3:31:24 PM
More than 20 Burmese journalists were banned from a press conference organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Rangoon on Tuesday. Rangoon-based journalists told

India Provides Burma US $84 Million in Loans, Credit
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:47 AM
India has agreed to provide Burma with US $84 million in loans and credits to build power transmission lines and an aluminum plant, state media said on Wednesday. Four agreements related to the loans ...

Divers Find only Bodies in Capsized Philippines Ferry
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:44 AM
Still hoping for a miracle, divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 850 people aboard, off...

Poet remanded to custody for jeering at junta supremo - Phanida
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:40 AM
Famous poet Ko Saw Wai, who had jeered at ageing SPDC Chairman Snr. Gen.Than Shwe calling him ‘power crazy’ was remanded for the third time by the Bahan Township court yesterday.

Reporter arrested for covering cyclone news - Nem Davies
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:40 AM
A woman journalist covering Cyclone Nargis victims asking for aid from international NGOs in Rangoon has been detained by for over two weeks, according to her publication.

Ten million malaria patients in Myanmar
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:39 AM
According to the World Health Organisation, malaria and AIDS are the two most devastating global health problems of our time. Together they cause more than four million deaths a year. They are both di...

Myanmar retires top military officers, reshuffles 150 staff
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:38 AM
A number of military members were also promoted in the first major reshuffle this year, said one military official who did not give his name since he was not authorized to speak to the media. ‘...

Farmers left in debt after land seizures
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:37 AM
The township agricultural department recently supplied the farmers with the equipment and seeds before the farmers were told their lands would be seized, according to one local farmer. ‘Now we have a...

Thai energy firm signs major gas deal with Myanmar, says official
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:35 AM
The agreement “ to develop the M9 block in the Gulf of Martaban “ was signed by PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) with Myanmar’s junta in the country’s remote capital Nayp...

China offers rare praise for Myanmar’s drug fight - Ben Blanchard
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:34 AM
China praised Myanmar’s efforts to fight drugs on Wednesday, lauding the actions of a military government often criticized in the United States and Europe for not doing enough to tackle the prob...

USAID assistance helped WFP helicopters to carry on relief operation
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:34 AM
New Delhi - The UN World Food Programme has said airlifting aid supplies to Burma’s cyclone victims continues with an aid of USD 3 million given by the US Agency for International Development (USAID...

Assessment confirms cyclone survivors face acute shortage of food, water
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:33 AM
New Delhi - The United Nations today said that more than half the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta and Rangoon Division are still starving without any food assistance. Only ...

Pitt, Clooney and Damon push for Cyclone Aid - Sara Hammel
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:33 AM
They’re known for their love of pranks and practical jokes, but good friends Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon have come together for something far more serious.

RM2 Million in medical aid sent to Myanmar
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:32 AM
Nargis, which struck on May 3, killed about 78,000 people in the Asean member country. The aid was sent via two Hercules C130 airplanes owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), from its base in...

No more aid through Junta: US House - Lalit K Jha
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:31 AM
In amendments to the Supplemental Appropriations Act 2008, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill that says US agencies should seek to avoid passing humanitarian relief through the military...

Six Myanmar athletes to compete in Beijing Olympics
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:31 AM
Six Myanmar athletes will compete in four sports in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China in August, local media reported Wednesday. The six athletes “ four men and two women “...

Preliminary findings of post-Nargis joint assessment confirm need for continued relief assistance
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:30 AM
Preliminary findings based on 50% of the data from the Village Tract Assessment (VTA) component of Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) indicate that more immediate, life-saving relief needs remain to...

63rd Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi - Celebrating yet another Birthday Alone
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 8:41:29 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 63rd birthday on June 19th 2008.Nobel Peac...

More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees resettled from Thailand in world
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 1:28:53 AM
BANGKOK, Thailand – More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees living in camps in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what the United Nations said Wednesday had become the world’s largest refug...

Burmese journalists continue to be arrested, foreign journalists still unwelcome
Yesterday, June 26, 2008, 1:26:11 AM
MONTREAL, June 25 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are outraged by a wave of arrests of Burmese journalists, some just for helping the victims of Cyclone Narg...

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