Independent Mon News Agency

The political sector at the Panglong Conference (Ko Thu)
May 29, 2017
Mon political parties attending national peace talks in Naypyitaw this weeks are balking at the government’s insistence on including “non-secession...
The Mon National Party’s general secretary Nai Layih Tamarh (Photo-MNA)
May 26, 2017
The ethnic perspectives represented at the second session of the Union Peace Conference – or the 21st-Century Panglong Conference – are not fully...
Checking water quality near Kanbe Lake (Photo: Facebook)
May 26, 2017
The Mon State Government has asked for assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as it tries to assess the scope of pollution...
May 24, 2017
The troubled second round of peace talks that began on May 24 in Naypyitaw got a needed boost of credibility, when the newly formed Federal Political...
May 24, 2017
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) announced on May 23 that it would decline to attend the second round of national peace talks starting...
May 23, 2017
Construction on an offshore supply base meant to support the growing oil and natural gas industry in Myanmar (Burma) has been suspended, following...
Students are paying respect to national flag at a Mon National School (photo: MNA)
May 22, 2017
Mon National School students who want to join government schools for the 2017/2018 academic year will have to take a placement test, according to the...
May 20, 2017
A caterer was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for throwing hot water on a teenage employee in retaliation for an alleged theft.
The New Mon State Party chair speaks at central committee meeting. (Photo – NMSP)
May 18, 2017
The Mon State government is pressuring the local ethnic armed group to swiftly sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA).
May 14, 2017
On May 5 the Mon State government instructed the plant, which is owned by the military-linked Union of Myanmar Economic Holding Limited (UMEHL), to...
May 14, 2017
Ye Township, the last area of Mon State that does not get regular electrical service, will be connected to a private electric grid by November 2018...
Mon State Chief Minister talking to reporters (Internet)
May 11, 2017
The Mon State Chief Minister, Dr. Aye Zan, announced on May 7 that he would hold four public meetings every year to get input and build cooperation...