Burma Update: August 18, 2008

Highlight

International Herald Tribune: Myanmar opposition hopes UN envoy's visit will spur talks

News from Burmese Media

Democratic Voice of Burma: Burmese MPs in exile call for ASEAN support
Democratic Voice of Burma: Daw Suu receives visits from lawyer and doctor
Mizzima News: Gambari's visit has created no political breakthrough: Burmese opposition
Mizzima News: Students allegedly involved in fight face trial: police
Kachin News Group: Burmese Army expresses regret for rape and murder of schoolgirl after arresting soldier
Kachin News Group: 100 posters against Burmese Army's human rights violation
Narinjara News: Arakanese ferry passengers displaced by cargo
Narinjara News: Army and police deploy at Sittwe monastery
The Irrawaddy: Six die and thousands flee torrential rain in Burma
The Irrawaddy: Gambari arrives in Burma
The Irrawaddy: Activists decry arrests as UN envoy returns to Burma
Independent Mon News Agency: TPDC orders planting good yielding variety of paddy
Burma News International: SPDC may force diversity alongside reconciliation: NMSP

News from Regional/International Media

The Boston Globe: Begging won't save Burma
The Epoch Times: Burma's ‘Blood Jade' Used in Olympic Medals?
Radio Netherlands: UN envoy visits Myanmar
AFP: Suu Kyi meets lawyer as UN envoy arrives in Myanmar: spokesman
Xinhua: Myanmar steps up carrying out weather forecast program
VOA: UN Envoy Begins Burma Visit
Vietnam News Agency: Myanmar increases efforts to prevent disasters
IOL: UN envoy to push for 'peace' in Burma
Relief Web: EGAT of Thailand donates 1,800 sets of lamp-posts for rehabilitation in storm-hit areas
Relief Web: Myanmar: Cyclone-hit farmers switch to fishing
Reuters: UN, Myanmar resolve aid currency problem, in theory

Multimedia


Reuters AlertNet: Wash - activities of Malteser International in Myanmar [Photo]