Mizzima

January 16, 2026
Inside the “Shwe Padauk Myaing” scam hub: torture and human trafficking...
Photo - PPP
January 15, 2026
PPP leader questioned by Myanmar junta following election defeat
January 14, 2026
New human rights case against Myanmar junta brought before court in Timor-...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
May 2, 2017
State Counsellor leaves for Europe
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon yesterday to pay official visits to Italy, Britain, and the European Union (EU) Headquarters in...
A plantation site in Chin State. Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now
May 2, 2017
Ending Chin State deforestation requires change in farm methods
Farmer Swae Du Hmone remembers how until a few years ago his family would have to venture into the mountains around Htalan Yong Village each spring...
An exterior view of the Headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
May 2, 2017
WB assists Myanmar with economic reforms
The World Bank approved a $200 million credit for a First Macroeconomic Stability and Fiscal Resilience Development Policy Operation, to assist the...
A Myanmar newspaper stand in Yangon. Photo: AFP
April 28, 2017
RSF’s 2017 World Press Freedom Index highlights increasing threat to media
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s latest World Press Freedom Index highlights the danger of a tipping point in the state of media freedom in many...
(File) Cardinal Charles Maung Bo (C) visits a prison facility in Cebu City, Philippines, 26 January 2016. Photo: EPA
April 28, 2017
Archbishop of Yangon reminds religious leaders about their role in...
Myanmar’s prominent Catholic Church leader on Wednesday reminded his counterparts from other faiths about their moral obligation to build peace and...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the co-ordination meeting on a national energy policy at the Myanmar International Convention Center-2 in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 26, 2017
Transportation and electricity sectors most important infrastructural...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday identified the transportation and electricity sectors as the most important infrastructural...
Arakan Army fighters. Photo: Arakan Army/Facebook
April 26, 2017
Amnesty calls for urgent action to be taken over death threats to...
Amnesty International has called for urgent action to be taken after journalist Nay Min Aung (known as Min Min) received death threats after...
Representatives from political parties and organizatins in Shan State are seen at the Shan State National Level Political Dialogue. Photo: IPRD
April 25, 2017
State-level political dialogue begins in Shan State
Shan State started a three-day State-level political dialogue in Taunggyi yesterday, a meeting described as a milestone and a significant step taken...
The Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) and the second Panglong conference held in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 25, 2017
21st Century Panglong Peace Conference to be held on 24 May
Myanmar’s government, military, and eight signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) agreed on Monday on eight points with their...
April 21, 2017
Peace Commission to meet Northern Alliance this month
Adviser Aung Soe from the Government’s Peace Commission (PC) has told Mizzima that the Peace Commission would meet northern alliance, which fiercely...
A staffer of Thuriya Naywin (The Sun) journal, Wai Yan Heinn, 27, was found dead with stab wounds at office in Yangon on April 16 morning. He was believed to be killed a few days ago. Earlier this year, the publisher of the journal was arrested for reporting in the journal on business of Thura Shwe Mann's family in 2015. Credit - Wai Yan Heinn/Facebook
April 21, 2017
RSF calls for thorough investigation into journalist’s murder
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was shocked to learn that news weekly publisher Wai Yan Heinn was found stabbed to death in Rangoon on 16 April, and...
April 19, 2017
Myanmar publisher whose magazine criticised the establishment found dead
A Myanmar publisher whose magazine has criticised the military, political and business establishment was found stabbed to death in his office at the...