Naypyitaw, Myanmar  - Myanmar's police chief on Sunday claimed to know nothing about a hunger strike being staged by Nobel laureate and political dissident Aung San Suu Kyi to protest her five-plus years under house arrest.

Addressing a press conference in Naypyitaw, the military's new capital situated 350 kilometres north of Yangon, Police Chief Khin Yee said Suu Kyi had recently been visited by her lawyer and doctor and neither had told the government about her hunger strike.

Yangon  - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has for the past three weeks refused food deliveries to her home-cum-jail in a hunger strike against her detention, opposition sources confirmed Friday.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) said Suu Kyi had refused to receive food packages from friends for the past three weeks to protest her unlawful detention which has "exceeded the legal limit."

Suu Kyi has been under house detention in her family home in Yangon since May 2003, on charges of disturbing the peace.

The detention followed an attack by pro-military thugs on Suu Kyi's convoy in Tepeyin, Sagaing division in northern Myanmar on May 30, 2003. Several of her followers were killed in the melee.

Yangon - UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari left Myanmar Saturday after six days in the country but failed to see opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Gambari, who added a sixth day to his five-day trip in an effort to meet with the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Suu Kyi, gave no reason why they didn't meet.

NLD spokesman U Nyan Win said that the meeting depended on three parties, the UN, the Myanmar government and Suu Kyi herself, but he did not elaborate.

"Some people said it only depended on Aung San Suu Kyi but that is not true," he said in a telephone interview.

Singapore - Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs warned political activists from Myanmar not to ignore repeated police orders to stop illegal public protests and anti-Myanmar activities, the The Strait Times newspaper said Saturday.

A spokesman of the Overseas Burmese Patriots (OBP), a group of Myanmar activists, said the Singapore government has not renewed immigration passes for five of its members that had participated in a public protest in November.

"We do have suspicion that the rationale for the rejections might be because of the protests and our activities," Myo Myint Maung said.

Bangkok  - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday shut down its "relief air bridge" to Myanmar after delivering 4 million tons of cargo from Bangkok to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Thai authorities were quick to offer Don Mueang, Bangkok's old international airport, as a logistics hub for the massive relief effort for neighbouring Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which hit the impoverished country in May, leaving about 140,000 dead or missing and another 2.4 million badly in need of food, medicine and shelter.

The international relief effort was initially stalled by Myanmar's ruling military junta, which was reluctant to allow an unhindered influx of cargo and foreign aid workers into the cloistered country.