Another year fettered

Aung San Suu Kyi at her family home in July 1995
As predicted, Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest term was extended one more year. According to the Wall Street Journal:
Defying an outpouring of international appeals, Myanmar’s military government Friday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by another year, a government [...]

The Six on May 24, 2007

First lady Laura Bush, center, accompanied by Senate Women’s Caucus on Burma members Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, right, takes part in a meeting on Capitol Hill May 23. (AP)
The following are the six news bits of today:

According to the U.S. State Department, in a congressional hearing on May [...]

The Eight on May 23, 2007

I will begin posting eight news updates on Burma each day that I can. The following are The Eight of today:

China, insensed that the Burmese government did not notify its officials of the Burmese national capital relocation to Naypyidaw, criticized their ally Burma in an account of their frustrations, including lack of cell phone reception [...]

Burmese vigilante group arrests citizens

A Burmese vigilante militia named Pyithu Arr Shin was given a thumbs-up by the state media, for taking the law into its own hands and arresting Burmese civilians who were supposedly planning a prayer campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi. According to the DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma),
The state-run New Light of Myanmar today [...]

A nuclear Burma

On Tuesday, May 15, Rosatom, the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency announced that Burma will go nuclear soon. According to The Economist:
On the cards is only a small-scale research program, which Myanmar says will be used to generate power, presumably to keep the flickering lights on in Yangon. The plan is to build a 10 [...]

The River of Lost Footsteps

Thant Myint-U’s The River of Lost Footsteps is a cumulative history of Burma, beginning in the 1800s in the Court of Ava (the Burmese monarchy), continuing through what he calls the “heyday” of colonial Burma, and ending with the military dictatorship, the “longest-lasting military dictatorship in the world and its purest.” Thant covers a great [...]

Child labor in Burma

Screenshot of the Myanmar Times’ “In beautifying and updating the capital city of Rangoon, a park has been upgraded” article.

Closeup of a child laboring in laying bricks.
The Myanmar Times, an English language weekly launched in 2000, is one of few newspapers from Burma available online, in both English and Burmese. Unfortunately, fewer articles appear on [...]