Independent Mon News Agency

December 19, 2025
Four men face election law charges over campaign sign vandalism
December 18, 2025
Irregular bank cash withdrawals disrupt rubber trading operations
December 16, 2025
Announcement of No-Vote Areas Seen as Evidence of Unfair Practices by...
February 23, 2017
Ah-kyaing robbery gang extort locals in Ye, Yebyu townships
The robbery gang led by Ah-kyaing is currently extorting locals in southern Ye Township, Mon State and Yebyu Township, Tarnintharyi Region, according...
February 20, 2017
NMSP, Tatmadaw agree to resolve tensions as Tatmadaw pushes ceasefire...
A Mon ethnic armed group and the Tatmadaw met February 16 in an attempt to defuse tensions sparked by the Mon group’s unsanctioned staging of an...
NMSP’s Chairman Nai Htaw Mon (middle) speaking to reporters (Photo: BNA)
February 14, 2017
NMSP denounces observer role in 21st Century Panglong Conference
The New Mon State Party (NMSP), the ethnic armed group of the Mon people, will not take part in the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference, if it...
February 10, 2017
Mon State Gov’t drops “Gen. Aung San Bridge” name
The Mon State government decided, at yesterday’s meeting, to drop the ‘General Aung San Bridge” title for the bridge that will connect Mon State’s...
9th UPDJC conference in Nay Pyi Taw (Photo: Hla Maung Shwe/Facebook)
February 8, 2017
CNF and ALP suspended from holding advanced talks; Uncertainty in CNF’s...
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) on Monday suspended regional-level discussions involving the Chin National Front (CNF) and the...
February 7, 2017
One in four complaint letters solved by Mon Hluttaw
Mon State Hluttaw’s public complaints and petitions committee has found solutions for 170 of the 486 complaint or petition letters submitted by the...
Protesters are marching in Mon State’s capital Mawlamyine (Photo: MNA)
February 6, 2017
1500 ethnic people stage peace protest in Mon State Capital
Approximately 1500 ethnically diverse people led by civil society organizations in Mon State cooperatively staged a protest as a public movement for...
Peace Commission Advisor U Hla Maung Shwe (sitting from the left) (Photo: Khin Zaw Oo/Facebook)
February 2, 2017
Gov’t Peace Commission contacts UNFC to discuss NCA inking and conference...
Government Peace Commission has a sent letter to the United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC), a coalition of ethnic armed groups, requesting...
Mon youths staging a protest for the Mon political parties merger (Photo: MNA)
January 31, 2017
Mon youths rally for Mon political parties’ merger
A group of Mon youths led by the Mon Youth Network staged a rally last Friday urging for the merger of Mon political parties in Ye Township.
January 30, 2017
KNU and NMSP reach 2-point agreement at meeting with Tanintharyi Gov’t
The Karen National Union (KNU) and New Mon State Party (NMSP) have agreed upon two points at Wednesday’s meeting with Tanintharyi Region’s Government...
Members of the Mon National Day organising committee meet with Chief Minister (Photo: MNA)
January 21, 2017
Mon State Gov’t provides 15 million Kyat for Mon National Day celebration
The Mon State Government decided at its Wednesday conference that it would provide 15,000,000 Kyat for the 70th Mon National Day celebration, which...
Electricity towers and lines seen across local paddy fields (Photo: Naiaung Naing)
January 19, 2017
Private landholders to be compensated for 66 KV electric routes
The department overseeing electric power transmission projects will designate over 45,000,000 Kyat on Friday, as compensation to the locals whose...