Yangon  - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted food parcels from supporters at her home-cum-jail in Yangon, after refusing deliveries for a month to protest her detention, opposition sources said.

Suu Kyi accepted a food parcel from Ko Myint So, a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party which she leads, on Monday night for the first time since August 16, NLD sources confirmed.

Kyi Win, Suu Kyi's attorney who has met with her four times in recent weeks, said Monday that the Nobel peace laureate had refused food parcels "for the sake of the people, to help them obtain their rights and uphold the law."

Yangon - Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is thin and malnourished after refusing to receive food deliveries at her home-cum-jail for almost a month, her lawyer said Monday.

Kyi Win, Suu Kyi's attorney who has met with her four times in recent weeks, denied that the Nobel peace laureate had been on a hunger strike but had only refused food parcels since August 16.

"She did not refuse the food parcels for her own interest but for the sake of the people, to help them obtain their rights and uphold the law," said Kyi Win, speaking at his Yangon office.

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.

Yangon  - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.

"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the spokesman for the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD).

Yangon - Myanmar relief operations for victims of Cyclone Nargis have made progress since mid-May but much still needs to be done, especially in remote parts of the Irrawaddy Delta, a senior United Nations official announced Wednesday.

"Significant progress has been made since I was last here," said UN humanitarian chief John Holmes, who last visited Myanmar in May 18 when international aid and aid workers were still facing enormous hurdles to reach more than 2 million victims of the cyclone that smashed into Myanmar's central coast on May 2-3.