Gambari to Visit Burma Thursday
The UN’s special envoy to Burma will be in Burma on Thursday, for the first time since the country’s. More...
Myanmar: Cholera outbreak in Mon State
According to an NMSP health program coordinator in Sangkhlaburi, Thailand, 45 Mon persons were diagnosed with cholera this morning, while the other 16 contracted the virus over the past two days. Two cholera patients died last week in the village, according to a local resident. More...
Five die in shooting near Suu Kyi home
YANGON: Five people were killed in execution-style shootings in the wealthy Yangon neighbourhood where Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest, police said yesterday.
A couple, their two daughters and a maid were shot inside their home on Monday afternoon, police said. More...
Questionable Referendum in Burma
The draft bill of the Constitution does not reflect the will of the political parties contested in the 1990 elections. Besides, it does not consult with important ethnic leaders and ignores the political aspirations of the people. The political alliances urge people to clearly state their will by casting "No" votes reject the military dominated constitution. More...
Mandalay Monks Launch Anti-referendum Poster Campaign
Activists monks in upper Burma and the underground All Burma Monks Alliance turn up the heat in anti-regime posters and public statements. More...
Crackdown on Rangoon’s Street Vendors
Rangoon municipal government has ordered a crackdown on street vendors and is arming security personnel to enforce the measure. More...
Three People Arrested for Comments on Referendum
A businessman who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Irrawaddy on Monday that three car brokers at the Rangoon car market were taken away by Burmese special police after they made casual comments in support of the main opposition National League for Democracy. More...
Junta to hold top brass meeting in Nay Pyi Taw
A meeting cloaked in secrecy by the secretive Burmese military junta is to be held in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday. More...
Detained 88 student activist sealed-off in dark cell
March 04, 2008 - New Delhi – Four political prisoners, including prominent 88 generation student, Markee have been locked away in dark cells in the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon by prison authorities, activists sources said. More...
Tacheleik residents told to call back family members from abroad
Tacheleik residents are under pressure from the Burmese military junta to recall their relatives living abroad and get, they enrolled in the family list so that they can cast their vote during the ensuing referendum, a source said. More...
Lawyer slams junta’s treatment of farmers
Lawyer U Aye Myint, a lawyer and leader of the dissident Guiding Star legal aid group, has criticised the Burmese regime’s poor treatment of farmers. More...
Paradigms needed to be shifted for Myanmar Revolution
I remember that one human resources consultant who discovered that more than 99% of the SPDC Government employees even in Research and Development Department were ‘psychologically complaint personalities’.
Actually all the R&D organisations need staffs who challenges the paradigm; that is what the scientist, Thomas Kuhn, called the ‘structure of scientific revolutions’. Paradigms needed to be shifted for scientific discovery, not maintained. More...
