Full Coverage: Myanmar

21.10.2009 The illegal cross-border timber trade between Burma and China continues to be widespread and the authorities in China should do more to clamp down, according to a new review.

16.08.2009 The Burmese military regime's renewed scorched earth campaign in Central Shan state has driven an estimated 10,000 villagers from their homes, according to Shan rights groups.

04.07.2009 The nationwide UK "saffron premiere" of Burma VJ, a documentary about the courageous young citizens who kept up the flow of news during a period of protest and repression in 2007, is on 14 July.

30.05.2009 This year's campaign linked to the Burmese democracy leader's birthday. It's original and innovative but I wish there was more focus on the role of the Chinese in propping up the regime.

14.05.2009 An intense diplomatic effort to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi has been called for by a Burmese democracy organisation following her detention in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail.

14.05.2009 An intense diplomatic effort to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi has been called for by a Burmese democracy organisation following her detention in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail.

03.05.2009 Hundreds of thousands of people who survived Myanmar's worst-ever cyclone last year face the prospect of being trapped in debt with little prospect of securing further credit or loans and need urgent help from the international community, warns an international aid agency.
+ Burma one year on

03.02.2009 Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many more are at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled large groups of Rohingyas seeking refuge.
+ UN refugee agency shocked by attack on staff in Pakistan

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

12.12.2008 Thirty companies have been added to the 'Dirty List' of companies accused of directly or indirectly helping finance Burma’s military dictatorship by operating in Myanmar.

11.12.2008 Asian elephants are being smuggled from Myanmar into neighbouring Thailand for elephant trekking' tourism, says a new report.

05.12.2008 A Cuban journalist, a North Korean radio station and two Burmese bloggers win media prizes.

28.11.2008 Thousands of people are needlessly dying due to a severe lack of lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment in Myanmar, says a report by an international humanitarian organisation.

03.11.2008 Six months after Cyclone Nargis caused massive devastation in Burma, a development group says the junta's restrictions on humanitarian access continue to obstruct aid workers.

01.08.2008 Three months after Cyclone Nargis hit Burma, some survivors have still received little aid, according to a development charity.

29.07.2008 Sixteen insurance companies are helping Myanmar's generals "buy the guns, bullets and tanks they use to rule Burma through fear", says a new report.

22.07.2008 The first full report on the needs of Burmese affected by cyclone Nargis says that over half the families contacted on the day of the survey reported that they had enough food to last only for one day and had no stocks to fall back on.
+ 'Time for donors to give more to Burma'

17.06.2008 Protests have made over the arrest of an editor and a blogger in Myanmar for channelling relief to victims of the Cyclone Nargis (at least eight journalists and a blogger are currently in prison there) and over China's detention of cyber-dissident Huang Qi.

12.06.2008 New measures by Myanmar's military government to control news and information coming out of the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta have been condemned by local and international media freedom groups.

27.05.2008 The Burma Campaign UK condemns world leaders for failing to speak out about the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the run-up to the illegal renewal of her detention.