Burma Update: August 29, 2008

Highlight



Forbes: The 100 Most Powerful Women






US Department of State: Refusal of the Burmese Regime to Cooperate with the United Nations

News from Burmese Media

Democratic Voice of Burma: State electricity company demands bribes from villagers
Democratic Voice of Burma: Security stepped up in Pakokku
Democratic Voice of Burma: Ten jailed for September 2007 protests
Democratic Voice of Burma: Rangoon authorities collect monks’ personal data
Democratic Voice of Burma: Legal proceedings underway for monks and activists
Narinjara News: Three Muslim Leaders Released in Arakan
Narinjara News: 18 Bangladeshis Handed Over in Flag Meeting
Independent Mon News Agency: Plantation owners living in fear of rebel and government troops
Kachin News Group: KWAT comes up with trafficking awareness cartoon
Khonumthung News: Rodents devastate several crops in farms in Cikha Town
Mizzima News: Twenty seven children poisoned by physic nuts
Mizzima News: Suu Kyi 38th most powerful woman in world
Mizzima News: Five, last year's protesters, arrested again
The Irrawaddy: Soldiers Still Watch Suu Kyi
The Irrawaddy: NLD Criticizes Gambari
The Irrawaddy: Detained Activists to Appeal for Open Trial
The Irrawaddy: US ‘Deeply Disappointed’ about Junta
The Irrawaddy: Joe Biden and Burma
The Irrawaddy: Anger in New Zealand over Deal Easing Trade with Burma

News from Regional/International Media

The Peninsula: Manila ready to sign ASEAN charter to push Myanmar case
International Herald Tribune: Suu Kyi party: UN trip yields no results
Monsters and Critics: New Zealand labour union attacks ASEAN trade deal
International Herald Tribune: US concerned about Suu Kyi

Opinion/Other

VOA: Burma's Activists Still In Prison [Editorials]

Statement/Press Release

Asian Human Rights Commission: Burma: Closed courts, absurd law and the exception as norm

Report/Briefer

Karen Human Rights Group: DKBA soldiers burn down Ler Bpoo village, Pa'an District