The Best Friend warmly welcomes the release of political prisoners, including many of our friends such as U Gambira, U Ghosita, and U Kheminda, and members of The Best Friend including Ma Thanda Tun and Ko Nyo, as a significant step forward. However, we still have to continue the struggle for complete and irreversible democratic progress, and we ask the international community to continue to support genuine democratization in Burma. [more]

On January 4th, Zarganar – who had been banned from performing on stage for many years – took to the stage again at the Prize-Giving Ceremony of The Art of Freedom Film Festival at Taw Won Center, Yangon. [more]

This year Ashin Issairya aka King Zero, U Nai Minda and members of the Best Friend Library Mae Sot celebrated Independence day with the residents of the rubbish dump of Mae Sot. [more]

Members of The Best Friend helped the 57 orphans from Shan State at Schools of Hope ring in the new year on the Thai-Shan border. [more]

Ashin Kovida about the disappointing “amnesty” that took place on Tuesday 3 January 2012… [more]

On December 24th The Best Friend distributed donations to the people on the rubbish dump of Mae Sot. [more]

U Agga Nya Na, now 27 years old, joined the Buddhist Sangha at age 5. He moved to a monastery in Rangoon in 2001 to study foreign languages, and was fully ordained as a monk there. He is one of the many monks who participated in the Saffron Revolution in 2007. In late 2007 he spent more than a month in hiding before escaping to Thailand where he testified to a delegation from the United States Congress about the military regime’s violent crackdown on the monks’ peaceful protest. [more]