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The PLA navy has displayed a fresh appetite to confront pirates plaguing vital sea lanes off the Horn of Africa, breaking up recent attacks on shipping with stun grenades and machine-gun fire.

Hi, General. or, in the language of your propagandists: Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, salutations! I've just read Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant , a summary by Benedict Rogers of the little we know about your long life.

Amid political instability surrounding the election in ethnic areas on the Sino-Burmese border, government officials have been recalled from border areas controlled by the United Wa State Army in northern Shan State and the National Democratic Alliance Army in eastern Shan State, sources said.

If reports of the Burmese junta's order appointing Lt-Gen Myint Aung, 56, as the new commander in chief of the armed forces are confirmed, he will be the latest commander of the strategic Southwest Regional Military Command to take the Tatmadaw's top position, following in the footsteps of junta supremo Snr-Gen Than Shwe.

Hundreds of refugees including many women and children caught by flooding are still sheltering in schools and monasteries in Pegu, central Burma.

London-based rights group Amnesty International has urged the UN General Assembly to establish an international Commission of Inquiry to investigate human rights abuses, crimes against humanity and possible war crimes committed in Burma.

The Free Funeral Service Society , run by Kyaw Thu, a popular former actor, has opened a restaurant, Thukha Ahara , in North Dagon Township to offer healthy food at cheap prices to members, patients and visitors.

A delegation of the Union Solidarity and Development, Union of Myanmar led by the administrative director of the party visited the DPRK embassy in Myanmar on August 25 in congratulation of the 50th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership.

Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant . By Benedict Rogers. Silkworm Books; 256 pages; $30 . Buy from Amazon.com "PERFECTION, of a kind, was what he was after" wrote W.H. Auden in his "Epitaph on a Tyrant". Perhaps it is this ambition that moves Than Shwe, the "senior general" in the junta which has run Myanmar into the ground.

Canada's international aid agency will provide $2-million to help rebuild Myanmar, a country reeling from a cyclone that hit this weekend.

Thein Sein, Burma's incumbent prime minister and head of the Union Solidarity and Development Party , recently sent a directive speech to ministries, universities and colleges, and army battalions, asking them to vote for the USDP alone in the Nov.

I think I will give this a miss in the same way that I gave Radovan Karadic's poetry a miss: Burma's military ruler, Senior General Than Shwe has been revealed as a budding lyricist.

Two warships of the 5th Escort Task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army - Navy left Myanmar Thursday after concluding a five-day friendly call at Yangon's Thilawa Port .

As the BBC Burmese service broadcast a programme marking its 70th anniversary, Sandhobasa, a monk, called in to say that he had been listening for more than two decades.

Burma's junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe is reportedly worried about possible assassination attempts against him these days, according to military intelligent sources.

Lt-Gen Myint Aung, the army's adjutant general, who has reportedly been appointed as the future commander-in-chief in the recent reshuffle, supported the decision to kill 81 innocent civilians on Christie Island near Thai territorial waters, according to Aung Lynn Htut, a former military intelligence officer and Charge d' Affaires in Washington DC.

Simon Scott Plummer on Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin, an account of the troubles under Burma's Military Junta As we are discovering this summer, natural disasters can cruelly expose the shortcomings of governments.

Myanmar military ruler Than Shwe will visit China next week ahead of crucial elections Beijing hopes will maintain stability and quiet international criticism.

" Many Irrawaddy residents and party members have agreed to boycott Burma's first elections in 20 years on November 7, according to National League for Democracy party vice-chairman Tin Oo.