Myanmese activist Khin Omar said yesterday businessman Li Ka-shing should either put pressure on the Myanmar junta to democratise or get out of her country.

Reports and images from the anti-government protests in Burma in 2007 brought the plight of citizens, journalists and free speech in the country to the world's attention.

Myanmar junta leader General Than Shwe pauses after offering white jasmine flowers at the Sri Maha Bodhi temple premises in Anuradhapura on Nov.

Burma has responded clearly to an attempt at engagement by the United States, a hopeful statement from Asean partners and a pass from any sort of criticism for a year by Europe.

In the time she has spent detained in her crumbling Rangoon home, the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has endured isolation, frustration and grief.

BANGKOK // The rumour mill in Myanmar is working overtime. Increasingly October 10 is being seen as the date of the election because of the junta's fixation on numerology: the day will be 10/10/10 in the Gregorian calendar.

Burma is not on the February agenda of the United Nations Security Council because no member has raised the issue, according to Ambassador Gerard Araud of France, the country holding the council's rotating presidency this month.

" District Court in Rangoon's notorious Insein prison has set February 15 for pronouncing the verdict of four women activists including popular activist Naw Ohn Hla, who are supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi may be freed during the national elections in Burma, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said on Tuesday, predicting that the polls could be held during the second half of 2010.

Paris-based charity Reporters Without Borders has condemned the jailing of a second video journalist by Myanmar's ruling military within four weeks.

By Ryan Libre MYITKYINA, Burma a ' On the first morning of each New Year, hundreds of people come to pray on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in northern Burma.

Burma's military authorities have recently tried unsuccessfully to pressure jailed members of the 88 Generation Students group into accepting the government's election process in return for their release, according to one of their colleagues.

The New Year brings a slender ray of hope for a benighted part of the world. But in Burma, every silver lining has alongside it a dark cloud.

YANGON: A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced an award-winning journalist accused of working illegally for a foreign news outlet to 13 years in prison, a lawyer said on Friday.

An Ethiopian opposition group says the international community is ignoring the plight of its jailed leader, who is listed by an arm of the United Nations Human Rights Council as a victim of arbitrary detention.

Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said a government minister's comment that she would be freed in November could be contempt of court as she appeals her sentence.

Mae Sot, Thailand a ' A life spent mining through mountains of trash is better than life in Burma, say those who reside at a local garbage dump at the edge of this border town.

The former Burmese army official sentenced to death this month for leaking state secrets has been moved from Rangoona TMs Insein prison, as his family prepares to appeal his sentence.

MYANMAR pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be freed when her house arrest ends in November, according to a government minister quoted by witnesses on Monday, but critics said that may be too late for this year's elections.

In this June 19, 2006 file photo, a poster of Myanmar's democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi reading "Happy birthday, Freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi and her people" is unrolled at Campidoglio Capitol hill, in Rome.