Burmese authorities have introduced new visa regulations for foreign correspondents as of early February, limiting foreign journalists to one month visas, instead of the previous three month stay.

Hundreds gathered in central Burma’s Mandalay on Sunday demanding abolition of Article-59(f) of the 20008 Constitution, which bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency.

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was on Sunday denied access to festival grounds in Shan State capital Taunggyi, causing a scheduled party rally to be moved to a vacant roadside lot.

Representatives of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), absent from the Ethnic Armed Organisations Conference in Karen State this week because of “language barriers”, have expressed solidarity with other ethnic leaders.

National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi, en route to Shan State for a three-day tour, was not granted permission to land at the military airbase in Nansang on Thursday and instead had to reroute to Heho about 150 km from her original destination.

Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to her party supporters at a public assembly in Karen State capital Hpa-an on 18 January, declaring that the 2008 Constitution stands in the way of peace between the military and the people of Burma.