Burma Update: July 2, 2008

Highlight

UNIC Yangon: Secretary General's press conference in Tokyo 1 July 2008

News from Burmese Media

Mizzima News: 'Warriors' claim responsibility for Rangoon blast
Mizzima News: Hearing of Ecovision reporter case fixed for July
Mizzima News: Censor Board clerk demoted for allowing publication of poem
Karen rebels recapture outpost
Narinjara News: Bangladesh Proposes Repatriation of 133 Burmese Prisoners
Kachin News: Junta lists nursery schools under KBC in Myitkyina
The Irrawaddy: Parties to Register for Election: Junta
The Irrawaddy: Journalists Arrested, Detained for Their Reporting
The Irrawaddy: Burmese Officials Ordered to Listen to Exile Broadcasts
The Irrawaddy: Burma Steps up Surveillance as Protest Dates Loom
The Irrawaddy: 7,000 Laputta Refugees Told to Return Home
The Irrawaddy: Burma's Politics Roiled, but Junta Grip Firm
Democratic Voice of Burma: Damaged monastery forced to turn down students
Democratic Voice of Burma: Flooding in Kachin state kills 5
Democratic Voice of Burma: Bomb explodes at USDA office
Democratic Voice of Burma: NLD calls for supporters’ release
Independent Mon News Agency: Army bans villagers from fishing in natural lake
Independent Mon News Agency: Burmese migrant worker shot in southern Thailand

News from Regional/International Media

Bangkok Post: Burma beefs up troop levels
Xinhua Online: Myanmar-ASEAN cyclone fund-raising soccer match to be held in Myanmar
Xinhua Online: More cyclone victims in Myanmar found infected with TB
IOL: Burma: Junta tightens security

Opinion/Other

ABC News: Is Political Change Afoot in Myanmar? - Denis D. Gray
UPI Asia Online: Junta harrassing Burma's cyclone survivors [Analysis] - Khin Ohmar

Report/Briefer

BBC: Reporting on post-cyclone Burma
UNIC Yangon: OCHA Situation Report No. 36

Interview




Democratic Voice of Burma: Indian NDA will consider Burma a priority [Interview with Former Idian Defense Minister]