Burma Update: December 24, 2008

Highlight

Medicins Sans Frontieres: 'Top Ten' humanitarian crises 2008

News from Burmese Media

• Democratic Voice of Burma: CRPP call for unity in Burma
• Democratic Voice of Burma: Rangoon authorities collect family data
• Mizzima News: Maternal health-care inadequate in eastern Burma: Report
• Mizzima News: Ethnic militia accuses junta of forcing opium cultivation
• Mizzima News: Than Shwe and team to tour cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta
• Shan Herald Agency for News: New form to hire migrant workers issued
  
• Shan Herald Agency for News: Shan State Congress formed
  
• Shan Herald Agency for News: Inaugural Sao Thusandi Award Given in Chiang Mai
• Irrawaddy: More International Pressure in 2009: Burmese Diplomat
• Irrawaddy: Political Prisoner Commits Suicide
• Irrawaddy: Junta Militants Arrested in Thailand: BBC
• Irrawaddy: NMSP Celebrates 50th Anniversary
  
• Irrawaddy: Korea Rejects Charge of Rights Abuse in Burma
• Kaladan Press Network: Nasaka into lucrative business in Maungdaw
  

News from Regional/International Media

• Xinhua Online: India grants 18 more goods items for trading in border area with Myanmar
  
• Nasdaq: N Koreans Arrested In Myanmar Include Four Children -Activist
• Red Orbit: Myanmar Has Widespread Maternal Health Problems
  

Opinion/Other

• Irrawaddy: Offering Hope for the Year Ahead [Commentary] - Yeni
  

Report/Briefer

• Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma: Altsean-Burma Bulletin December 2008
  
  • Ban won't go to Burma
  • More prison sentences
  • Prison transfers
  • Migrant workers' plight
  • Financial crisis
  • New deals
  • Other Burma news
  • List of Reports