Burma News (7.8.09)

by Danny Fisher

Here’s the latest on Burma:

  • In an analysis, the news service Reuters concludes that “the international community has few options left for Myanmar after the U.N. secretary-general’s failure last week to engage the recalcitrant military regime.”
  • In the “more bad news” department, Reuters also reports that “a landslide caused by torrential rain killed about 30 people in northern Myanmar at the weekend when it swept away their homes, which were built on a mine dump.”
  • In other news, the Associated Press reports that “fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa.”