Independent Mon News Agency

April 20, 2016
Over 300 people, including human right activists, civil society organization workers and monks came together to pray for the two innocent villagers...
April 20, 2016
Representatives of New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Mon Affair Union (MAU) have decided to work towards holding the 8th Mon National Conference (MNC)...
April 8, 2016
Thousands of acres of confiscated land in Mon State are being returned by the military and other government departments. A total of 16,527 acres in...
April 8, 2016
A civil society group (CSG) that monitored the 2015 election will start evaluating performances of MPs and the Mon State Hluttaw (parliament), said...
April 7, 2016
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) objected to the use of coal power for a cement factory in Mon State. Nai Win Hla, NMSP central executive committee...
April 5, 2016
Mon State’s newly appointed government ministers, the auditor-general and advocate were sworn in before the house speaker Daw Tin Tin Ei yesterday...
Ethnic armed groups during the first Panghsang Summit in May of last year. (Photo – Irrawaddy)
April 4, 2016
Non-state armed groups (NSAG) that didn’t sign or were prevented from taking part during last year’s controversial nationwide ceasefire agreement (...
April 4, 2016
Several Mon State MPs elected from the National League for Democracy (NLD) say that they are unable to accept the appointment of U Min Min Oo as the...
The Second SMJN Conference
March 25, 2016
The second Southern Myanmar Journalists’ Network (SMJN) Conference was held in Dawei, the Tenasserim Region capital, on 19 and 20 March.
Local residents sign a petition against MCL cement factory's use of coal. (Photo: Sandar Non’s Facebook)
March 4, 2016
Over 4,000 residents have signed a petition against the use of coal to power a cement factory owned by Mawlamyine Cement Limited (MCL) in the Pyar...
February 4, 2016
Five Karen political parties will merge into one to better help establish ethnic states that are based on ethnic equality and self-determination,...
January 28, 2016
Newly elected Mon State members of parliament (MPs) met with their predecessors and the outbound Mon State Hluttaw Chairman at Mon State’s Hluttaw...