Burmese opposition leader "in good health"

Reports from Burma say the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is in good health despite international concerns following her latest confrontation with the military authorities.

Miss Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since last week when police forcibly ended a roadside protest she staged after being refused permission to visit other opposition activists outside the capital, Rangoon.

The government has denied that she or any of her party colleagues are under house arrest, but says they have been asked to stay at home while investigations are carried out into their alleged contacts with foreigners and with a group of ethnic Karen rebels, known as God's Army. Earlier, the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, added his voice to the international protests over Miss Suu Kyi's treatment.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service