Than Shwe News

Myanmar leader Than Shwe visits the Buddhist Tooth Relic temple in Kandy, Myanmar, on Nov.

Myanmar junta leader General Than Shwe in the "Sri Maha Bodhi" temple in Anuradhapura on Nov.

The Burmese military junta thrives on a cycle of corruption, which has spread its tentacles to all the government's civil sectors as well, said locals.

Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home Wednesday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said.

Elections are due next year in Burma, and they will most probably go exactly according to the plan of the governing military junta.

New Delhi - Burma's military junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe on Friday patted on the back his puppet civilian organization - " the Union Solidarity and Development Association - " for a job well-done for the past 16 years and urged it to carry on with gusto until the junta's Seven-Step Roadmap is wrapped up.A A Than Shwe, in his speech on ...

According to the military junta that rules Myanmar,1 the State Peace and Development Council is on the cusp of the completion in 2010 of its self-ordained "roadmap" to a form of "democracy" in the country - an election, the inauguration of a bicameral representative national legislature, local legislatures, and the operational stage of the new ...

Despite expectations that Snr-Gen Than Shwe would reshuffle senior military leaders in preparation for the 2010 election, he transferred no one and ended the quarterly military meeting by playing golf.

A group called Veteran Politicians has sent a letter to Burmese junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe urging him to promote a policy of national reconciliation and unity leading up to the 2010 election.

In the wake of a meeting attended by the all-powerful military elite, Burma's military regime is due to come under close scrutiny for concrete signs of change leading up to a promised general elections in 2010.

Before there's more dialogue with General Than Shwe, human rights abuses against ethnic minorities must cease.

YANGON: Opportunities are emerging for a breakthrough in the political stalemate in military-ruled Myanmar, including the possibility of talks with the junta, and they must not be missed, an EU envoy said yesterday.

Aung San Suu Kyi leaves a meeting with the US assistant secretary of state earlier this month.

Although Burma's military regime has announced no election law nor declared the date of the poll it plans to hold in 2010, preparations appear to have begun in Naypyidaw.

" Thu Wei, the Chairman of the Democratic Party, one of the political parties keen on contesting the forthcoming election, on November 13 sent a letter to junta supremo Snr Gen.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe is being widely tipped to succeed Snr-Gen Than Shwe as the Burmese army's next commander in chief, according to several dissidents in exile and Burma observers.

The U.S. said ita s hopeful that political dialogue can begin in Myanmar between the military government and opposition parties after pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wrote to junta chief Senior General Than Shwe .

President Mahinda Rajapaska, President of The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka warmly welcomes Head of State of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe.

Burma and Sri Lanka have some shared facts such as colonialism, Theravada Buddhism, Non-Aligned Movement, and protracted armed resistance by the minority.

Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has requested a meeting with the military regime's top leader, adding to signs that lines of communication are opening up between her and the junta.