Independent Mon News Agency

March 6, 2017
Mon State forestry officials say they have netted a record haul of illegally harvested luxury timber and revealed a smuggling pipeline operating from...
Protesters gathering to oppose the proposed name change (Photo: MNA)
March 5, 2017
Over 3,000 protesters converged Thursday near the Mon State Bridge to express their opposition to recent moves in the Union Parliament to rename the...
March 3, 2017
The Mon State Hluttaw [Parliament] voted on Wednesday to confirm the Kyaikto representative to the post left vacant by the resignation of former...
March 2, 2017
Speaking on Tuesday before the Pyithu Hluttaw, the lower house of Burma’s parliament, the Paung Township representative argued that objections to the...
March 2, 2017
As two Mon State detention centers undergo repairs mandated by the human rights commission this week, more than three dozen detainees were...
Seized trucks with illegal logs
February 27, 2017
Seven 12-wheeler trucks transporting illegal logs from Yangon were seized in Mon State on Saturday, according to Mawlamyine/Thaton District Forestry...
February 23, 2017
Over 2500 villagers, from 12 villages in Pyartaung area, Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State, staged a protest on Saturday [Feb. 18], within the paddy...
February 23, 2017
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
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
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
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
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) on Monday suspended regional-level discussions involving the Chin National Front (CNF) and the...