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  Cyclone Nargis hits Burma, 2 May

  28 Dec 2008:

  Tha Hla Shwe, president of Burma's Red Cross, on how the people's spirit survived the devastation

• Remember, Aung San Suu Kyi's disengagement is not her choice

  25 Nov 2008:

  Response: Burma's pro-democracy movement is still strong, but action is not currently possible, says Thaung Htun

• Aung San Suu Kyi and western intervention in Burma

  13 Nov 2008:

  Letters: Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are to be commended for their unusually frank reporting on Aung San Suu Kyi

• Burmese activists jailed for 65 years over protests

  12 Nov 2008:

  Another 20 activists are being tried on numerous charges and could face sentences of up to 150 years each

• Burma regime jails pro-democracy activists for 65 years

  11 Nov 2008:

  Veteran leaders of student movement pay high price for role in anti-government unrest

• Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years

  11 Nov 2008:

  Nay Phone Latt, a 28-year-old Burmese blogger, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon of the military leader Than Shwe. His trial was held in a court inside Rangoon's Insein prison. A colleague was sentenced to two years, and another dissident, Saw Wai, also got two years for publishing a poem mocking Than Shwe in the weekly Love Journal. (Sources: AFP/Google/BBC)

• Not such a hero after all

  11 Nov 2008:

  Aung San Suu Kyi's failure to react to recent crises has led some to question her ability to lead the fight against the military junta. By Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy

• Aid work in Burma after Cyclone Nargis

  Gallery (10 pictures), 6 Nov 2008:

  Six months after a cyclone devastated the country aid workers are helping people rebuild their lives

• Rebuilding homes and hope in Burma

  6 Nov 2008:

  Six months after cyclone Nargis wreaked devastation, Henry Makiwa reports on the progress of relief efforts

• Bangladesh sends warship to Burma in gas row

  5 Nov 2008:

  British-made frigate joins three others in bay of Bengal as tensions escalate over vast but disputed gas find

• Bangladesh and Burma send warships into Bay of Bengal

  4 Nov 2008:

  Tensions escalate over gas resources lying beneath the bay's sea floor

• The baron who holds Burma's purse strings

  2 Nov 2008:

  Not only does Lord Levene let Lloyd's insure the junta; he is also on the board of Total, which pays Rangoon $2m a day for oil. Nick Mathiason reports

• Lloyd's chief urged to cut Burma links with Total

  2 Nov 2008:

  Oil giant is business partner of oppressive military government

• The way forward in Burma

  1 Nov 2008:

  John Virgoe: In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, we must respond to the suffering of people who cannot wait for distant political change

• Microsoft, Google and Yahoo pledge to protect internet freedoms around world

  29 Oct 2008:

  The technology giants have signed up to the Global Network Initiative, which aims to help companies stand up to authoritarian regimes

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