Myint Hlaing, also known as Myint Naing, was sentenced to 8 years while his five colleagues received 4-year terms handed down by a court in Henzada Township in Irrawaddy Division, according to AAPP based in Thailand. The activists were charged under sections 505 (b) and (c) for inciting public unrest. (Source: Irrawaddy Online)

“There was a great deal of hope that the Asean charter would lead to a renaissance of Southeast Asia, but fears about how Burma would react has lowered the bar,” said Debbie Stothard, spokesperson for the Alternative Asean Network on Burma, a group that was set up in 1996 to campaign against Myanmar’s membership. (Source: AFP)

Arriving in Moscow today, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, began a weeklong trip that will also take him to several European capitals. (Source: UN News)