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Yangon, Myanmar authorities have released 43 demonstrators who held one of the country’s few protests marking the anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, an opposition party official said on Saturday. No significant protests were reported in Yangon, the country’s biggest city, where security personnel were brought out in large numbers to stave off any trouble.

Upon touchdown at Yangon International Airport, one can feel the muffling of sounds and the absence of human traffic. From the initial outlook, it seems the ratio of the airport staff to the number of passenger is almost 1 to 1.

This blogger has received some  interesting comments from Robert Sechler  and U Myint Soe relating.. my previous post  “The last days of the Iron Turtles in Rangoon.” Thank you  all for your comments and allow me to share the comments to the blog readers who wish to know ” The Iron Turtles of Burma”.

Initial reports on the worst weather diaster in Asia since 1991. Afshin Rattansi in Tehran interviews Justin Wintle in London

The June edition of the New Era Journal, a Burmese-language monthly published in Bangkok, carried a letter from an unnamed senior lawyer practicing in South Dagon, greater Rangoon. According to the author, to be selected for the test to become an apprentice judge these days a lawyer needs to pay the

Visiting Yangon Myanmar Published July 23rd, 2008 in Yangon | No Comments » Be it Myanmar, the official name given by its ruling junta, or Burma, favoured by those opposed to the government, this is a country arguably as well-known for its hardline military government as its rich history and ancient monuments.

Do this work from Yangon? Snake Plissken says yes.

Bomb blast in Myanmar, guerrilla outfit active By  Kumar Sarkar The repressive Myanmar military junta needs to worry some with the re-emergence of an underground organisation the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors. The group triggered an explosion in an office of junta sponsored outfit the USDA early this month.

For this extended special news programme, Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley went undercover in Myanmar to report exclusively on the people's protests and resulting bloody crackdown by Myanmar's military government, talking to the protesters, filming the bloody crackdown and gauging the mood of the nation

Shake the dust off your shoes In a blaze of early starts and long working days I finished up my time in Bangkok. The last two weeks in Bangkok I had been buying equipment for field teams that we couldn’t source in Yangon. Locating and chasing up the Thailand suppliers is an exhausting process.