Myanmar

Author: Simon Montlake Source: The Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1213/p06s02-woap.html Nearly two decades of treating Burmese migrants on the Thai border has taught Cynthia Maung, herself a political refugee from military-ruled...

Author: Staff Writer Source: CBS News Wire Service: AP http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/11/ap/congress/main3607526.shtml The House approved a bill Tuesday meant to stop Myanmar's rubies and high-quality jade from entering the United States. It...

Author: WARREN HOGE Source: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/world/asia/08nations.html?_r=1&oref=s… At least 31 people were killed in Myanmar during the military government’s crackdown on protests this fall, and arrests of and...

Author: Staff Writer Source: Bangkok Post http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=124189 Protesters who participated in the September demonstrations in Rangoon will not be prosecuted if they had acted peacefully, the top Burmese...

Author: Paul Icamina Source: The Buddhist Channel http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=57,5438,0,0,1,0 The largest Burmese Buddhist temple in Singapore closed its doors Friday to activists who have been using it as a venue and even as a mailing...

Author: Mungpi Source: The Buddhist Channel/Mizzima News http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,5368,0,0,1,0 Sayadaw (abbot) U Gambira, a prominent Buddhist clergy, who took a leading role in the August and September peoples' protest in Burma was...

Author: AYE AYE WIN Source: The Associated Press http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-24/1194… A U.N. human rights envoy arrived Sunday in Myanmar on a mission to get inside the country's prisons to...

Author: Staff Writer Source: VOA News http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-07-voa19.cfm Burma's military government has rejected a United Nations special envoy's call for U.N.-brokered talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The envoy...

Author: Staff Writer Source: The Australian Wire Service: AFP http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22683744-2703,00.html About 100 Buddhist monks marched last night in central Burma for the first time since the junta's deadly crackdown on...

Author: Staff Writer Source: The Buddhist Channel/Democratic Voice of Burma http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,5281,0,0,1,0 DVB reported that two of the women detained were put under duress by the Home Affairs Ministry to confess to having...