Latest breaking news on Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma/Myanmar governance.

Aung San Suu Kyi still remains in custody in Myanmar today, despite a strong and unusually direct and unified appeal by ASEAN countries and other international bodies and countries for her release. The international media has dropped the story for the time-being, and so is business in Burma/Myanmar, as the Burmese ruling junta proves that little has changed and international pressure will do little to release their grip on dissendent opinion. The US is in the midst of implementing trade sanctions with Burma, and ASEAN is under pressure to prove it's influence.

While the disappearance of Aung San Suu Kyi as the Myanmar junta arrested her and supporters and placed them in "protective custody" may seem only of passing interest to our readers, this never-ending story has significant implications for governance in South East Asia, and the country-risk and economic risk of doing business in Myanmar,

Aung San Suu Kyi is painted by the West as a hero of democracy. In Malaysia and some Asian nations she is characterised by the government press as a Western Uncle Tom. Nevertheless the UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail is Malaysian and was credited by many worldwide with the success at obtaining Aung San Suu Kyi's release last year, and spun as an example of the "Asian way" of negotiating by Malaysia's elite. This time, Ramzali is back into the fray, and as of the second week in June, concerns are heightening that Aung San Suu Kyi may well have been injured. No news since her disappearance, to many, is bad news.

To most, Aung San Suu Kyi's party should be ruling Burma, winning democratic elections. However the current ruling junta seized power in a coup immediately after, maintaining power by arresting Aung San Suu Kyi, banning her party, controlling the press, and regularly closing down universities as possible hotbeds of dissent.

This news page tracks the latest news on Aung San Suu Kyi, and the implications for doing business with Burma and Myanmar while it remains ruled by an illegitimate government.