Independent Mon News Agency

Vote counts and voters in Chaungzone Township
April 7, 2017
Only 38.4% of eligible voters participated in the April 1 by-election in Chaungzon Township, Mon State, or only 48,532 of Chaungzone Township’s 126...
Members of the All Mon Region Democratic Party re-post the Taungpyin party signboard after a massive walkout last weekend. (Photo: MNA)
April 7, 2017
A leading Mon State political party has hemorrhaged staff from its Ye township office after a dispute erupted over a proposed merger with other local...
April 5, 2017
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s March 30 announcement that five ethnic armed groups plan to soon join the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement...
USDP candidate U Aung Kyi Thein won the Chaungzon township Pyithu Hluttaw seat. (Photo: Thanlwin Times)
April 3, 2017
A Mon State seat won by the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 2015 general election switched hands to the Union Solidarity and Development...
March 31, 2017
The Mon State government will spend 500 lakhs ($37,000) for the upcoming water festival or Thingyan. That is nearly six times as much as the 86 lakhs...
Mon State Minister of Energy, Electricity and Industry, Min Htin Aung Han
March 31, 2017
The Southeast General Energy and Power Co., Ltd (SEGEP), which is constructing electrical infrastructure for southern Ye Township, Mon State, will...
March 30, 2017
By-election candidates say they are facing an uphill battle motivating voters in Mon State to come out to the April 1 polls.
March 28, 2017
Nai Oak Sar, a member of All Mon Regions Democracy Party’s (AMDP’s) Central Executive Committee, was removed by the committee’s other members at a...
Hluttaw Representative discussing at the Mon State Hluttaw (photo: Tin Min Aung/Facebook)
March 27, 2017
State departments have returned over 1,361 million kyats (almost $1 million) of surplus funds to the state government from their 2016-2017 budget...
March 27, 2017
Police guidelines dictate that Mon State should have 3,186 officers policing its 10 townships, but the state currently hosts roughly half that number...
March 24, 2017
As the Wa continue to push fellow ethnic armed groups to abandon the nationwide ceasefire agreement and start negotiations anew, the movement has...
March 23, 2017
The former chief minister U Min Min Oo, who since his resignation has served as the representative for Bilin Township, said that he was unable to...