A combined force of army soldiers and junta-allied Pyu Saw Htee militias raided two villages in central Myanmar and torched around 200 homes last week, locals said, causing the displacement of over 1.700 people - 500 children, fleeing from the attack

The first group of refugees from Myanmar living in Thailand and eligible for a new resettlement programme left Bangkok for the US last week; some 90.000 refugees now live in nine closed camps inside Thailand

The Myanmar authorities should release journalist Htet Aung and allow members of the press to do their work without fear of legal reprisals or imprisonment, said the Committee to Protect Journalists

Tin Oo, one of Aung San Suu Kyi's closest collaborators and co-founder of her National League for Democracy party, has died