"Apart from praying for the release of ... Aung San Suu Kyi, we prayed for the earliest release of the South Korean hostages," said Naw Ohn Hla, a former member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party. Naw Ohn Hla said it was the 161st weekly gathering to call for Suu Kyi's release. (International Herald Tribune-Asia|Pacific)

Amid some fanfare, the generals who run Burma announced a few days ago the opening of the final session of the constitutional convention that, the junta assures the world, will provide the Southeast Asian nation with a "democratic" constitution. (Source: Vancouver Sun)

Authorities confirmed on Tuesday that dead chickens at the farms in Mon state, about 300 kilometres south of Yangon, had been infected with the H5N1 virus, the official Mirror newspaper said. (source: www.iol.co.za)