Burma News

" Rights groups have demanded that the United Nations Security Council Working Group closely monitor the progress of work on eliminating violations against children and the use of child soldiers in military-ruled Burma.

Myanmar's military-ruled government may release pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi soon so she can play a role in next year's general elections, according to a senior Myanmar diplomat.

MYANMAR'S detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, expressed hope on Monday that US engagement with the county's military rulers could spur democratic reforms, her lawyer said.

Diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organise her party for elections next year.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon meets again with Myanmar junta supremo on Saturday when he expects a verdict on whether he will be allowed to visit detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.

The administration of US President Barack Obama has followed up its announced policy of engagement with Burmaa TMs military regime by sending a high level delegation into Naypyidaw, the first in 14 years.

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Burma say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but that the junta's plans to hold elections next year could disrupt the delicate process.

President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, next month in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.

Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption.

A VETERAN soldier from Birkdale is on his way to an emotional return to the battlefields in Burma where he served with the British Army in World War Two.

Kurt Campbell, the US Assistance Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will arrive in Burma on Tuesday, accompanied by Scot Marciel, the US special envoy to Southeast Asia, for two days of talks-the highest level of US-Burma contact in a decade.

United States president Barrack Obama could cross paths for the first time with Burmese prime minister Thein Sein at a summit to be held in Singapore later this month.

ITALY Northern Italy lucrative language school consisting of four classrooms and a language laboratory for sale.

New election bill needed to avert crisis in Iraq BAGHDAD - The official charged with carrying out Iraq's crucial January polls warned Wednesday that they will be delayed if parliament doesn't approve a key electoral bill.

The visiting US delegation's talks with the Burmese regime, ethnic minority groups and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has coincided this week with the news that the China gas pipeline project is finally under way in Arakan State.

Meetings with senior military officials in Burma are test of Obama administration's new policy of engagement with dictatorship US diplomats Kurt Campbell and Scot Marciel arrived in Burma today for meetings with senior junta officials.

WASHINGTON a " The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping.The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in July that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against the eavesdropping ...

The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry has honored persons who contributed to the winning of some exhibition-related awards in the recent China-ASEAN Expo held in Nanning, capital of Southwest China' Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sources with the UMFCCI said on Monday.

According to a a Thailand-based human rights group, the Myanmar junta arrested up to 50 people this week including journalists, political activists and university students.