July 01 2003

- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was moved from notorious Insein Central Jail to a new location 40 kilometres northeast of the capital.
- The deputy foreign minister, Khin Maung Win, made a lightning visit to neighbouring Thailand for secret talks with both his counterpart, Surakiart Sathirathai, and the country's Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.

July 02 2003

- Sent President George W. Bush a petition signed by 350,000 textile workers appealing against a threatened US import ban.
- Britain's Premier Oil Plc said it had won approval from Burma to transfer its interest in the country's Yetagun gas project to a major shareholder, clearing the way for a restructuring of the firm.
- The British government asked major cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco to pull out of Burma.
- Thailand's prime minister says the Burmese government has shown him a photograph that shows that jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is safe and healthy.

July 03 2003

- The International Committee of the Red CrossRed Cross said he military regime has at least 30 prisoners from a clash that triggered a crackdown on the opposition and to the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 04 2003

- Deputy Foreign Minister, Khin Maung Win, arrived in Japan with a message from the head of ruling junta.

July 05 2003

- Photographs of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talking and dining with country's ruling generals appeared in official newspapers.
- Foreign Minister U win Aung arrived Dakha carrying a letter of the Burma's head of the government for Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
- Gen Khin Nyunt, chief of military intelligence, criticised foreign pressure to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in remarks.

July 06 2003

- The official press launched vitriolic new attacks in a series of commentaries portraying Aung San Suu Kyi as inflexible and under the influence of foreign powers.

July 07 2003

- Discredited two dissidents who claimed they witnessed an attack on a convoy led by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by saying that the two were not present during the violence.
- The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) made its first visit to Rangoon's notorious Insein prison since the May 30 violence which led to the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Continued blasting opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as an ongoing media campaign against her and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party for the third day and charged she was ungrateful for the opportunities the junta says it presented to her.
- Deputy Foreign Minister Khin Maung Win met Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and explained the current situation in Rangoon but stopped short of giving any indication when detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released.

July 08 2003

- Foreign Minister Win Aung during talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, said country will support Pakistan's bid to join the Asia-Pacific region's top security grouping, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

July 09 2003

- Burma was listed at bottom of the list of the world's freest economies according to the report published by the conservative Cato Institute, Canada's Fraser Institute and more than 50 other institutes.

July 10 2003

- Foreign Minister Win Aung called on Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha and delivered a letter from military ruler Senior General Than Shwe to Vajpayee.
- Canada announced it was banning Burma's military leaders from its territory to protest against the regime's detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- In a personal letter to an unnamed Asian leader, a copy of which was obtained by the Fianicial Times (UK), Burma's senior general, Than Shwe, said his regime acted because NLD factions "were conspiring to create an anarchic situation... with a view to attaining power" by Suu Kyi's birthday on June 19.

July 11 2003

- The country's official press warned democracy and reconciliation in Burma remain "far beyond reach" despite UN efforts.

July 14 2003

- India and Burma signed a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] for creation of a Joint Trade Committee.
- Accused Western nations of ''blind and prejudiced meddling'' in its internal affairs.

July 15 2003

- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 418-2 to ban imports from Burma.

July 16 2003

- Condemned a United States vote to tighten economic sanctions on the country, describing them as "weapons of mass destruction" that would create havoc.
- The UN chief sent the message to General Than Shwe through the deputy foreign minister U Khin Maung Win, whom he met, to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 17 2003

- Arrested 12 people who were accused of plotting to assassinate five members of the regime as part of a campaign to create civil unrest and seize power.
- Thailand proposed a ''road map'' for democratic change in military-run Burma.
- Arrested four journalists over an article on a football team.

July 18 2003

- Released 91 people detained following what the military government said was a clash between backers of pro-democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-junta people in northern Burma on May 30.

July 19 2003

- Ceremonies to mark the assassination of country's independence hero General Aung San were held in the absence of his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi who has been under detention.
- BBC reported the first eyewitness evidence that the country's army directed and orchestrated the attack in May on the motorcade of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 20 2003

- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned in an interview that Burma might have to be expelled from the ASEAN grouping if its military rulers continue defying world pressure to release democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 22 2003

- A threat that Burma could be expelled from the ASEAN grouping if the military junta fails to release democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi won support from United Nations special envoy Razali Ismail.

July 24 2003

- Foreign ministers from Europe and Asia demanded the immediate release of Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in a statement issued after the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

July 26 2003

- Military government said that the country should be left alone to solve its internal problems.

July 27 2003

- Launched a new attack on Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition party, accusing them of plotting to seize power from the regime and insisting it would never stand aside.
- Foreign Minister Win Aung said there was no immediate schedule for the release of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after arriving in Indonesia.
- Malaysia warned Burma to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi or risk intervention from the United Nations or other countries.

July 28 2003

- U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill closing the U.S. market to imports from Burma and urged neighboring Asian nations to do their part.

July 29 2003

- Criticized the United States for slapping economic sanctions on the country, and found support from key Asian neighbours who said the move would not help bring change to the troubled nation.

July 30 2003

- Amnesty International urged country's military junta to bring to justice the culprits behind the May 30 attacks on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party.
- Indonesia's foreign minister said Burma's military junta will resolve an impasse over the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi before a summit of Southeast Asian nations in October.
- Country's ruling military government said it would not yield to pressure and intimidation after the introduction of tough new US sanctions it described as "most regrettable".
- The Philippines government demanded that the Burma's ruling junta release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 31 2003

- General Khin Nyunt lashed out at the United States for introducing tough new sanctions, saying it was an "abuse of human rights" which would result in social and moral decay.
- Deputy Foreign Minister Khin Mung Win called on Brunei Ruler as a special envoy of Senior General Than Shwe.