| News - World Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Following last week’s abrupt cancellation of his Burma trip, Senator Jim Webb has written an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking her to examine allegations by the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs that Burma had violated UN Resolution 1874, which bans North Korean overseas military shipments. |
| News - World Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | (Mizzima) – The formation of a United Nations commission of inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed in Burma during the course of the country’s decades long civil war and political standoff has gained a further advocate. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Wednesday said that it will appoint a special envoy for Burma, but has not yet selected a candidate. |
| News - World Written by DVB Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | The US must appoint an envoy to Burma “without delay” in light of allegations that the pariah state is developing a nuclear weapons programme and has traded military hardware with North Korea, a senior US senator has said. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | WASHINGTONThe United States is talking to the Burmese military junta about its international obligations to implement a United Nations Security Council resolution on North Koreas nuclear weapons program, a US official has said. |
| News - World Written by DVB Tuesday, 08 June 2010 17:31 | | The world’s leading nuclear energy watchdog has said it is investigating reports that Burma is looking to develop nuclear weaponry and may look for clarification from the military government. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Tuesday, 08 June 2010 17:31 | | Burma's ambassador to Singapore has categorically rejected allegations in a recent media report that the country is developing a nuclear weapons program, even as the chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said that the agency is assessing information in the report. |
| News - World Written by The Guardian Friday, 04 June 2010 18:20 | | Fresh claims that Burma is trying to acquire the know-how and material to build a nuclear weapon, based on information provided by a former army officer, are published today, renewing concern about the extent of the junta's military ambitions. |
| News - World Written by DVB Friday, 04 June 2010 18:20 | | A five-year investigation by DVB has uncovered evidence that Burma is embarking on a programme to develop nuclear weaponry. At the centre of the investigation is Sai Thein Win, a former defense engineer and missile expert who worked in factories in Burma where he was tasked to make prototype components for missile and nuclear programs. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:41 | | WASHINGTON The United States is not satisfied with recent developments in Burma a top Obama Administration official said on Wednesday, while urging the military junta to listen to the voice of the international community for a better future of its own people. |
| News - World Written by Mizzima News Friday, 16 April 2010 16:09 | | (Mizzima) – The United States has expressed concern and sympathy over the serial bomb blasts that killed at least eight and injured over 90 in Rangoon on Thursday. It condemned the perpetrators of the heinous act. |
| News - World Written by DVB Friday, 16 April 2010 16:08 | | The US government has been ordered to pay $US3 million to a former Rangoon-based Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officer who accused Washington of spying on him whilst in Burma. |
| News - World Written by Xinhua Thursday, 08 April 2010 01:59 | | | YANGON, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will compile a report on the country's human rights situation to be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | WASHINGTON Burma failed to appear on the April agenda of the UN Security Council, apparently because of a lack of consensus among its members, as its president for the month, Ambassador Yukio Takasu of Japan, released the councils schedule. |
| News - World Written by DVB Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | US diplomats have reportedly admitted to Burma’s main opposition party that Washington’s shift towards engagement with the ruling junta has achieved nothing. |
| News - World Written by Mizzima News Friday, 02 April 2010 21:32 | | Deputy Supreme Court Judge Thein Soe, the newly appointed Chairman of Burma's Election Commission is on the EU’s blacklist of sanctions. The list, which targets key members of Burma’s military regime |
| News - World Written by DVB Friday, 02 April 2010 18:18 | | The Bangladeshi government has said that it will take the fiery debate over the crisis afflicting the country’s nearly 400,000 Burmese-origin Rohingya refugees to an international forum if bilateral negotiations fail. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Friday, 02 April 2010 17:42 | | | The owners of the UBT Ocean, a chemical tanker hijacked by Somali pirates in early March, are in the process of negotiating a ransom for the release of the vessel and 21 Burmese crew members |
| News - World Written by DVB Monday, 29 March 2010 23:32 | | | The Paris-based multinational Alcatel-Lucent has denied accusations that it was assisting the Burmese junta with telecommunications equipment used to monitor phone calls... |
| News - World Friday, 26 March 2010 19:05 | | | The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today told reporters in New York that Burma faces critical short and long challenges and the United Nations will continue help realise the aspirations of Burmese people... |
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