Myanmar junta scraps key intelligence body after power struggle
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military regime has scrapped the body that gave intelligence officers loyal to deposed premier Khin Nyunt widespread powers, state media reported.
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Myanmar's junta freed at least two dozen  members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's political party on  Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained  "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged last  month.
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military regime reshuffled its cabinet, removing three long-serving members including the foreign minister, according to state-run media.
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Confronted by a military junta willing to pull the trigger, Buddhist monks and democracy activists in Myanmar face long odds in trying to uproot an institution that has wielded absolute power for 45 years.
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&#39;BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct. 19 - The military government of Myanmar on Tuesday announced the dismissal of the prime minister, Khin Nyunt, who had publicly been pulling in a more liberal direction than the other generals in the country&#39;s ruling clique.
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The military government banned assemblies of more than five people and imposed curfews in Myanmar's two largest cities on Tuesday
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Myanmar, also known as Burma, has confirmed the ousting of its prime minister Khin Nyunt. A senior figure in the country&#39;s ruling military junta, said he has been replaced by a deputy to one of the top two generals in the country.
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Burma's military has cancelled talks with the Karen rebel group just days after dismissing the prime minister.
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Burma&#39;s secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, according to officials in neighbouring Thailand.
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Myanmar's Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt -- among the most reformist of the military regime's leaders -- has been sacked and placed under house arrest for alleged corruption, a Thai government spokesman said.
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A televised message said the inmates had been arrested by the now disbanded National Intelligence Bureau led by ousted Prime Minister Khin Nyunt.
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YANGON - Myanmar (Burmese) Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt has been placed under âprotective custodyâ in what appears to be a purge of the countryâs much-feared Military Intelligence (MI), military sources said on Tuesday.
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Myanmar's prime minister has been  ousted and put under house arrest after a lengthy power  struggle that has tightened the grip of hard-liners in the  military government, Thai officials and diplomats said on  Tuesday.
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In another sign that Myanmar&#39;s military junta is eliminating internal differences, Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt was replaced by a top member of the country&#39;s ruling junta, Lieutenant
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - Myanmar&#39;s secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister and placed him under house arrest, a move that could be seen as a victory for conservatives.
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The prime minister of Burma&#39;s secretive military government, General Khin Nyunt, had been removed from office by hardliners in the regime, according to reports from neighbouring Thailand.
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Myanmar's military government, a target of sharp international criticism for failing to hand over power to a democratically elected government, announced Saturday that it will hold elections in 2010.