Burma News

The headquarters of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy was crowded Tuesday with 150 HIV-positive visitors to mark World Aids Day.

Bangkok a ' The list of high-profile foreigners heading to Burma to engage and advise the countrya TMs military regime is about to get longer.

Bangkok a ' Myanmar Energy Domestic natural gas to triple in Myanmar in next decade =A A A Bangkok The supply of natural gas for domestic use is to triple in Myanmar over the next decade, the Myanmar Times reported Monday quoting the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise .

Political instability in Burma could lead to an increase in drug trafficking and the relocation of narcotics production facilities, according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

To answer the frequently asked query - is democracy possible in Burma - is yes. But what democracy is the following question.

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.

AFP/File EU special envoy for Myanmar, Piero Fassino answers questions from the press in 2008.

The Philippines Embassy is seeking the release of 14 Filipinos detained last week for allegedly fishing illegally in Burmese waters.

The International Labor Organizationa s a s Governing Body on Thursday said Burmaa s ruling military junta has failed to implement recommendations made by the Commission of Inquiry in eliminating the use of forced labour.

International non-governmental organizations operating in Burma are likely to suspend their activities next May, according to NGO sources in Burma.

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.

" The Burmese Ministry of Electric Power will commission the Ye village hydro-power project in December, billed as the biggest in the country.

An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said.

Colombo a ' There has been a demonstration in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, against the visit of the Burmese head of state, General Than Shwe.

Myanmar will construct a new railroad to link Myanmar's border town of Muse with China's Jie Guo, Yunnan province to facilitate commodity flow in bilateral border trade, sources with the Rail Transportation Department said on Friday.

The final piece in the Burmese military regimes, 'Road Map to Democracy', is the national elections planned for 2010.

Burmese troops have razed huts and infrastructure belonging to illegal Burmese settlers on an island on the Thaung Yin river, which separates Burma's eastern Karen state from Thailand.

If a shocking documentary about the fate of Burma's cyclone orphans wins a prestigious video-journalism award in London tomorrow night, it will be some time before one of the men who shot it gets a chance to celebrate.

A 73-year-old mother broke into tears when she heard the message from her son, Tun Tun Oo, who is in Meik-Hitla Prison, one of thousands of political prisoners in Burmese jails.

UNB, Dhaka Further action by the UN commission concerned on Myanmar's claim on the outer-limits of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal has been suspended.