The trial of Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was adjourned today for two weeks so that defence lawyers can call an additional witness to give evidence.

The Burma government went back to barring reporters and diplomats from Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial today, a day after briefly allowing them inside the courtroom for the first time.

Burma's military regime suddenly opened pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's trial to the press today and allowed diplomats to meet her, in the face of worldwide outrage regarding the handling of her case.

Burma's military regime will allow diplomats to meet with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi after today's session of her trial.

Hundreds of armed police kept supporters away from the second day of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s closed-door trial today.

PRO-DEMOCRACY leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial, as hundreds of riot police ringed Burma’s most notorious prison to block protesters from proceedings that could send her to jail for five years.

Riot police behind barbed wire barricades ringed a notorious prison where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was due to go on trial today for allegedly harbouring an American man who swam to her lakeside home.

Burma’s military rulers have released the personal doctor of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who goes on trial tomorrow for allegedly violating terms of her house arrest.

Burma’s military rulers disbarred a prominent lawyer who applied to defend pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her forthcoming trial, the lawyer said today.

Burma’s Nobel Prize-winning pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced new charges today less than two weeks before her house arrest was due to end after an American man swam across a lake and entered her home, her lawyer said.

A United Nations investigator said today his five-day mission to Burma had enabled him to determine the number of people killed and detained in the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

At least 70 people held by Burma’s military government following the huge street protests, including 50 members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, have been released, it was announced today.

Guards at detention centres in Burma beat, kicked and slashed protesters rounded up during the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, sometimes leaving their victims to die of their injuries, a dissident group said today.

A COURT in military-ruled Burma has jailed four opposition party officials for seven years in jail after a closed trial at the notorious Insein Prison, a party spokesman said yesterday.

Nine people, including the editor of a sports magazine, have been sentenced to death for high treason in Burma.

Burma‘s military government today accused dissidents and foreign media, including the BBC, of trying to stir up unrest with reports about the country‘s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who completes one month in detention on Monday.