Burma Update: September 29, 2008

Highlight

• Burma Partnership Secretariat: Weekly Briefer (September 15-21, 2008)

News from Burmese Media

• Democratic Voice of Burma: NLD youth members pay respects to U Win Tin
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Security tight in Sittwe after demonstration
  
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Three NLD members released after anniversary arrests
  
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Three more political prisoners released
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Activist Han Lin dies in New York
• Narinjara News: Six Deserters Surrender to Nasaka on Western Border
• Independent Mon News Agency: Army hospitals to be sold to China
• Independent Mon News Agency: Mon National Democratic Front Liberation Area (MNDF-LA) founded
• Shan Herald Agency for News: Saffron revolution not just Burman affair: event organizer
• Kaladan Press Network: Peaceful protest to mark 1st anniversary of saffron revolution in Arakan
• Khonumthung News: Army Captain compensates two women with extortion money
• Kachin News Group: Junta sells foreign-aid-fertilizers for Cyclone Nargis-hit Irrawaddy River Delta
• Mizzima News: 'Group of Friends' fails to resolve internal differences
• The Irrawaddy: Package Tour Available to Irrawaddy Delta in October
• The Irrawaddy: Junta Amends Historical Commission Law
• The Irrawaddy: State Violence in Thailand and Burma
• The Irrawaddy: China’s Grip on Burma ‘Cause for Concern’
• The Irrawaddy: Opposition Must Cooperate: Win Tin
  

News from Regional/International Media

• Reuters: Myanmar's Nargis-hit rice fields replanted - FAO
• Asian Tribune: 'People of Burma have not been forgotten'
• Asian Tribune: Key Nations call on Burma to release Democracy Leader Suu Kyi
• The Straits Times: S'pore donates fertilisers
  
• GMA News: Myanmar bans Chinese dairy products
• Xinhua Online: Myanmar-China border trade fair to be held in Muse this year

Multimedia

• Al Jazeera: Myanmar one year after the crackdown

One year on from Myanmar's brutal crackdown on street protests, Al Jazeera has returned to Myanmar to find people still too frightened to properly mourn the victims.

Opinion/Other

• Star Tribune: A grim milestone for Burma

Statement/Press Release

• International Federation for Human Rights: Time has come to release all political prisoners
  
• Burma Campaign UK: British Government Pressure Lloyd’s over Burma links
  
• Arakan Rohingya National Organization: Statement of ARNO on the report of CSW: “Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border”