Western calls for human rights in Myanmar fall on deaf ears while Asian money talks. As Western countries continue to impose trade sanctions on Myanmar and press for the release of Nobel prize winning Aung Sun Suu Kyi, Asian countries have jumped in to trade with the military junta.

One year after devastating Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar last May 2 killing nearly 140,000 and leaving 800,00 homeless, hundreds of thousands still have no jobs or housing.

Despite WHO calls that a new strain of TB is "potentially explosive", Burma is in serious shortage of TB drugs and funding from current national supplier Global Fund Facility will run out at the end of this year. Along with other Asian countries like Thailand, Vietnam, and China, Burma is ...

The number of websites being shut down is rising in Southeast Asia, where the Internet had once been considered an instigator of democratic change. Previously democratic countries are curbing Internet activity and repressive states are following China's so-called "Great Firewall" censorship model.

Paintings of revolvers with lipstick, and grenades with fetuses by Burmese artist San Minn, demonstrate a strong sense of anti-violence likely not found in his military junta-ruled home country.

Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to give unified statement against trade protectionism at a summit next week, and will discuss details of a regional foreign reserve fund pool. Finance ministers in the Asia region are holding bilateral talks in the lead up, showing strategic cooperation to prevent trade protectionism.