Mizzima

January 17, 2018
Myanmar's government must take concrete action to counteract decades of military impunity for human rights violations, the International Commission...
January 17, 2018
Myanmar police said Wednesday they opened fire on a crowd of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as they tried to seize a government office, in unrest that left...
People walking in front of the Sulay Pagoda in downtown area of Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
January 12, 2018
Burmese authorities should not pursue a criminal complaint brought under Burma’s privacy law against a Facebook user for posts critical of a state...
In this photograph taken October 14, 2016, armed rebels belonging to KIA ethnic group take a cigarette break as they move towards the frontline near Laiza in Kachin state. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 11, 2018
At least 52 armed incidents took place nationwide in December, down from 63 the previous month, while the conflict in Shan and Kachin intensified,...
Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
January 11, 2018
Mr Stephen J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief of Reuters has expressed his disappointment that two of his company’s Myanmar reporters are being...
Reuters' journalist Wa Lone shouts as he leaves after his trial at Mingaladon township court in Yangon, Myanmar, 27 December 2017. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA-EFE
January 10, 2018
The Myanmar authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Reuters news agency who have been arbitrarily detained for investigating...
Ambassador of Italy Pier Giorgio Aliberti. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
January 10, 2018
The Ambassador of Italy to Myanmar Pier Giorgio Aliberti has said, “The peace process is crucial for the future of Myanmar and the solution of ethnic...
January 10, 2018
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Central Executive Committee emergency meeting has passed a resolution to continue their negotiations...
Border Guard Force (BGF). Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
January 9, 2018
Maj. Naing Maung Zaw from Border Guard Force (BGF) confirmed to Mizzima that combined troops of Karen National Union (KNU) and BGF were fighting...
January 9, 2018
A meeting of the central committee for organizing the Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong was held yesterday afternoon in the meeting hall...
A soldier (C) stands guard as rescue workers search for the miners killed by a landslide at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 23 November 2015. Photo: Zaw Moe Htet/EPA
January 8, 2018
A landslide at a jade mine in Waykha village, Seikmu village-tracts, Phakant, Kachin State, killed five yaymasay illegal jade pickers and injured two.
January 6, 2018
Officials from the Rathedaung Township General Administration Office said that curfew under section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code was still imposed...