Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi received rare front-page billing Saturday in Myanmar's state-controlled press, which said the ruling military junta was "putting energy" into democratic reforms demanded by the international community. ...more

November 11, 2007

U Par Par Lay goes to India to have his toothache treated. The Indian dentist wonders why the Burmese man has come all the way to India. ...more

November 4, 2007

the gems that finance horrific and violent wars in some African countries - in the movie 'Blood Diamond.' But diamonds are not the only beautiful jewels with bloody origins. ...more

October 22, 2007

At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea. ...more

October 21, 2007

Demonstrators in cities across Europe and Asia joined Saturday in protests against the military junta in Myanmar, where some activists held covert vigils for those killed and arrested in the crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrations. ...more

October 7, 2007

A U.N. envoy to Myanmar met Sunday with the detained opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and with several members of the military junta that last week crushed a peaceful pro-democracy uprising, the United Nations said. ...more

October 1, 2007

Regarding '9 Die As Myanmar's Violence Escalates' (Nation/World, Sept. 28): Once again we see a pattern emerging: A country cowed under a dictatorship is moved by some event to protest. The people do so peacefully, led by peaceful persons, in this case, Buddhist monks. Then more and more people join in. The government tries to keep it quiet from the outside world and tries to pretend that all is well. Then the government moves into violence, beats the leaders, and murders people in the streets. Try though it might, it cannot keep the world from knowing about it. ...more

September 30, 2007

Britons Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will pay tribute to their native city when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture next year. ...more

September 28, 2007

Myanmar's military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist monks who led 100,000 people marching through a major city in the strongest protests against the repressive regime for two decades. ...more

September 25, 2007

Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy. ...more

September 23, 2007