The Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Foreign ministry diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organiser her party for next year's elections Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may soon be released so she can play a role in next year's election, a senior Burmese diplomat has said. "There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party," Min Lwin, a director-general in the foreign...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... South-east Asian Nations (Asean) and the US.In a break with George Bush's policy of isolating the Burmese regime, Barack Obama has decided on a policy of engagment with the junta. Last week the US assistant secretary of state for east Asia, Kurt Campbell, and his deputy, Scott Marciel, became the most senior American officials to visit Burma since since 1995, when Madeleine Albright...
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... I think he will fall short of the expectations of the new US administration," retired Burmese diplomat Thakin Chan Htun told Reuters. "We can't expect any tangible immediate results ... Than Shwe is the one who makes all the decisions on all important policy issues." State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said yesterday that the trip, the most senior-level of its kind in 14...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... promote the culture of the Karen, a culture which is being systematically destroyed as part of the Burmese regime’s policy of ethnic cleansing, and to promote human rights. In meeting its objectives, the Foundation will, in particular, focus on young people, encouraging and supporting a new generation of grassroots activists who will work to help their people. THE AWARD Each year...
