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At a time when Burma’s brutal military dictatorship is ruthlessly crushing pro-democracy protests, you wouldn’t expect British businesses to be boasting about their links with this regime.

Scores of monks march in Burma for the first time since the government's brutal crackdown on protests.

It was not a surprise that the Burmese junta violently cracked down on the "saffron revolution." The generals had lost all credibility in the eyes of their people, and were left with only one tool of control - repression. But no matter how many guns an

Worshipers have begun returning to the Shwedagon Pagoda, the towering gold-coated landmark that had been cordoned off with soldiers and barbed wire only days before. But at its four entrances, pictures of what appeared to be detainees, their faces harr

Groups say the regime is ignoring environmental laws to access materials cheaply.

Burma's regime is targeting the last remaining communications links that brought images of the bloody crackdown on the recent pro-democracy protests to the outside world.

First lady Laura Bush said Tuesday her husband's administration is prepared to slap additional sanctions on Burma's military government if it does not start taking more steps toward democracy.

New video footage of a Burmese soldier taking what appears to be a video camera from the fallen body of Kenji Nagai, the Japanese journalist who was shot to death in September during the Burmese anti-government protests in the nation’s capital Yangon, w

It's the "nuclear bomb" of Internet repression, says John Palfrey.

What Makes a Monk Mad