Syndicate content
Burma

BURMA - INTERNET
Leading Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years
Nay Phone Latt, a leading figure in the Burmese blogosphere, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. A former member of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the 28-year-old dissident was arrested after anti-junta protests last January.
BURMA
Six pro-democracy supporters jailed one year after protests
Six members of Myanmar's pro-democracy party were sentenced to 13 years in prison for their part in last year's monk-led protests, charged with "inciting people to harm the peace of the State."
BURMA
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi asks junta for release
Burma's leading opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to the ruling junta to end her long-standing detention. The 63-year-old NLD leader has been confined to her home for 19 years and is often refused visits.
.

In the papers

France 24 journalists present a daily round-up of the international press.
28/09/2008 - THE WEEK IN ASIA

First anniversary of the Saffron Revolution

In this edition: the release of Burmese journalist Win Tin after twenty years in jail, one year after the Saffron Revolution; India's orphaned children being sold as slaves; and international talks on North Korea's nuclear programme.
BURMA - UNREST
Blast rocks Rangoon as protest anniversary looms
Four people suffered minor injuries after a small blast at a bus stop outside city hall in Rangoon. It's the latest in a series of explosions in the military-ruled country this month.
BURMA
Junta frees long-time political prisoner Win Tin
Burma's longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, was freed on Tuesday after 19 years in jail and immediately vowed to continue his struggle against 46 years of unbroken military rule.
BURMA - SUU KYI
Concern over Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 13 of the last 19 years in detention, is said to have started a hunger strike, though a junta official has denied the reports.
BURMA
Opposition leader Suu Kyi allowed to meet her lawyer
Aung San Suu Kyi - the leading figure of opposition to Burma's military junta - has been allowed to meet her lawyer, for the first time in four years, to discuss her house arrest, according to her party.
BURMA
Burmese mark 20 years since bloody uprising
The party of Aung San Suu Kyi, the jailed pro-democracy leader, has hailed the student-led uprising of August 8, 1988 as a "turning point" in Burma's history. An estimated 3,000 people died during the protest, which was crushed by the military.
Close