Reports from Burma say the arrest of opposition activists has continued.

Four members of the opposition National League for Democracy are said to have been held in Mandalay Division in central Burma.

Among them is, Than Lwin, who was elected as an MP in the NLD's 1990 electoral victory, which was ignored by the military.

Burmese press reports said local constituents had expressed no confidence in him, and the others were accused of threatening peace and stability.

Yesterday, the Burmese Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the NLD in a court action accusing the country's military rulers of abuse of power.

The NLD says that since 1990, about two thousand people have been detained for political reasons and more than forty have been arrested in the past month.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service