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Rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect government ammunitions and soldiers' helmets after two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: AFP
June 23, 2017
A coalition of political parties in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state said on Wednesday that the national army’s offensives in Tanaing township and the...
June 23, 2017
U Zaw Htay, Director General of Myanmar President’s office, said that there is no visa ban on Harn Yanghwe who is the youngest son of Sao Shwe Thaik...
Sweden's Prime minister Stefan Lofven (R) and Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) during a press conference after their meeting at the Rosenbad in Stockholm, Sweden, 12 June 2017. Photo: EPA
June 14, 2017
A United Nations probe into alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar's military against the minority Rohingya people last year would inflame ethnic...
The late S S. Khaplang, centre, seen here at his camp in Myanmar. Photo: samir kar purkayastha/PCDN
June 12, 2017
The Burmese Naga rebel leader S S Khaplang has died of illness, his comrades said late on Friday.
(Files) Kyaw Min Swe, chief editor of 'The Voice' weekly journal, talks to reporters after his trial at the Dagon township court in Yangon, Myanmar, 05 October 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
June 7, 2017
Authorities in Myanmar should immediately drop criminal defamation charges against Kyaw Min Swe, editor of The Voice newspaper, and Ko Kyaw Zwa Naing...
Decorated Indian lawyer and women's rights campaigner, Indira Jaising
May 31, 2017
The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key step in an...
May 31, 2017
A reporter was abducted, dragged into a waiting vehicle, and then critically wounded in an auto accident on May 26, near the town of Loikaw, in...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked northeast after their bodies...
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting of the second session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Nay Pyi Taw on 28 May 2017. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
May 30, 2017
Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater...
Two Wa soldiers from the United Wa State Army (USWA) stand armed on a construction site. Photo: AFP
May 30, 2017
Seven Northern Alliance non-ceasefire signatory armed groups have left the second meeting of 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference on Saturday for...
Participants of the peace conference meet on the third day of the Land and Environment session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 26 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
May 26, 2017
The Union Peace Conference— 21st Century Panglong (second session) discussed position papers in five sectors and reached agreement for the majority...
May 25, 2017
China can continue to bring "soft power" to Myanmar's peace process, Chinese experts said, as the Panglong peace conference began on Wednesday.