Over the past year, a Tokyo-based group of overseas Myanmar democracy activists has broadened its presence among peers back home via an audio news program broadcast over the Internet.

One Saturday evening in October, Than Swe (no relation to the leader of Myanmar's military junta), president of Burma Democratic Action, joined other members of the group in an apartment in Tokyo's bustling Takadanobaba district to work on their weekly online program "Maykha Internet Radio."

One of their main tasks was to conduct telephone interviews with activists remaining at the forefront of the opposition movement in Myanmar, and ask opinions about recent developments there in the aftermath of the junta's brutal clampdown on protesters in Yangon in late September.