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Burmese farm workers harvest rice in a paddy field on the outskirts of Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
October 17, 2017
Australia and Myanmar have developed their strategy of research collaboration in fisheries, livestock and cropping systems for the next ten years...
October 17, 2017
The eight armed ethnic organisations that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement on 15 October 2015 marked the occasion yesterday at the Myanmar...
October 16, 2017
A Mandalay court will announce on October 27 the result of an appeal by calling for the denial of bail handed to Myanmar Now Editor-in-Chief Swe Win.
October 13, 2017
Member of the Northern Alliance, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), will not attend the second anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire...
Khun Myint Tun, member of Peace Process Steering Team (PPST)
October 12, 2017
Khun Myint Tun, member of Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) consisting of the eight Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) that signed the Nationwide...
People hold candles during the Interreligious Gathering of Prayer for Peace ceremony at Yangon football stadium on 10 October 2017. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
October 11, 2017
Tens of thousands of people filled a Yangon football stadium for an interfaith prayer ceremony on Tuesday, a show of unity in a country damaged by...
October 10, 2017
The Forestry Department issued a press statement October 9 saying 50 tons of Burma Padauk timber was seized on three 22-wheel trucks in Samase...
Miners search for jade stone near the heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
October 10, 2017
A warning shot from police at a jade mine in Phakant in Kachin State has killed a miner.
Peace Commission member Aung Soe. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
October 9, 2017
The government’s Peace Commission (PC), will reportedly meet with United Wa State Party (UWSP) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) in their...
Diplomates arrive at Sittwe Airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 02 October 2017. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA-EFE
October 4, 2017
The scale of the suffering inside Myanmar's Rakhine state is "unimaginable", the United Nations said Monday, after three of its members joined a...
USDP Central Committee Chairman Than Htay.
October 4, 2017
Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Central Committee Chairman Than Htay said at a meeting with new generation youth from Mandalay Region...
October 3, 2017
The Maungdaw Township Police Force has confirmed that ecstasy tablets worth nearly 4 billion kyat was seized on October 1 from two military personnel...