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(Photo: Ko Paw Myo Sut Aung)
July 16, 2018
Local people from Lonekhin village-tracts said that about 100 Yaymasay jade miners (rag picker miners from waste earth dumpsites) were feared dead in...
NLD party Central Executive Committee (CEC) member Nyan Win. Photo: Mizzima
July 13, 2018
National League for Democracy (NLD) party Central Executive Committee (CEC) member Nyan Win said that what the Defence Services Commander-in-Chief...
Rakhine National Party (RNP) Vice-Chairperson Aye Nuu Sein speaks during the third session of the 'Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong' in Nay Pyi Taw on 11 July 2018. Photo: Mizzima
July 12, 2018
Rakhine National Party (RNP) Vice-Chairperson Aye Nuu Sein said at the third session of the 21st Century Panglong Conference that started on 11 July...
This picture taken on May 11, 2018 shows internally displaced people in a church compound in Myitkyina after fleeing conflict between government troops and ethnic armed group in Kachin state. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
July 11, 2018
Myanmar has a proud history of peaceful protests. Exercising the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly in the face of state violence has been a...
(File) Four Eights Party (8888 party) leader Ko Ko Gyi (C) talks to the media after starting the party's registration process at the Union Election Commission (UEC) Office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 19 December 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
July 10, 2018
After the third plenary meeting of the Party Forming Committee held on July 8 in Mandalay, the members decided to change their party’s name to ‘...
A surveillance plane of the Thai army crash on Thailand-Myanmar border area (Photo: Khao Sod)
July 6, 2018
A surveillance plane of the Thai army crash-landed in the Thailand-Myanmar border area on Thursday, an army officer said.
Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
July 6, 2018
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has decided to contest for the majority of vacant seats in the by-election to be held in November.
President Office spokesman Zaw Htay
July 5, 2018
President Office spokesman Zaw Htay said that among the two issues proposed under the political sector, gender Equality and ethnic minority rights,...
July 3, 2018
Leaders of the Women’s Work Committees Congress, hosted by the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), have objected to recommendations from some...
UPDJC vice chairperson Dr Salai Hlyan Hmone speaks the opening speech of the 15th UPDJC meeting held in NRPC Centre in Nay Pyi Taw on June 29. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
July 2, 2018
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) vice chairperson Dr Salai Hlyan Hmone said ethnic groups will continue demanding democracy, equality...
Zaw Htay, director general of the President’s Office. Photo: Mizzima
June 27, 2018
The third session of the 21st Century Panglong Conference will also focus on minority rights and gender equality, Zaw Htay, director general of the...
Myanmar migrants return to the Kyauklonegyi camp in Myawady on 23 June, 2018.
June 25, 2018
Thai authorities arrested Myanmar migrant workers without valid documents and many of them have reportedly returned through the border at Myawady.