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Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi seen closely with security guards during 69th Martyrs' Day at her house in Yangon. Photo: Soe Win/Facebook
August 4, 2016
The Myanmar government is arranging more security for State Counsellor and Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi after her name appeared on a...
A man mixes marijuana and tobacco leaves from a typical Myanmar cheroot in a house on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
August 3, 2016
After a two-day debate on the elimination of drug abuse and trafficking in the country by lawmakers in the Amyotha Hluttaw, parliament yesterday...
National Democratic Alliance Army-NDAA (Mongla) and Myanmar Peace Commission hold talks in Yangon. Photo: MNA
August 2, 2016
Representatives of the National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), also known as Mongla, have backed the government’s “all-...
Myanmar State Consellor Aung San Suu Kyi has met with Wa and Mongla rebel representatives​ at Thingaha Hotel in Naypyitaw on July 29, 2016. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
August 1, 2016
The leaders from United Wa State Party (UWSP) from Shan State Special Region No. 1 and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) from Shan State...
Leaders from NDAA arrive at Nay Pyi Taw on 28 July 2016. Photo: Kyaw Ye Myo Chit
July 29, 2016
Leaders from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), will meet with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and...
Khin Suu Kyi/Mizzima
July 29, 2016
The plenary meeting of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) being held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State, will be extended for one more day because a number...
The streets of Mae Sot. Photo: Faces of Mae Sot
July 28, 2016
40 border based civil society organisations (CSOs) have sent an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi calling for the restoration of their original Myanmar...
Khaplang at his den flanked by his bodyguards. Photo: samir kar purkayastha/PCDN
July 28, 2016
India has asked Myanmar to act against four top leaders of the Sagaing-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K), including its...
The first day of the four-day plenary meeting of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State on 26 July 2016. Photo: Khin Su Kyi/Mizzima
July 28, 2016
Four ethnic armed organisations including the largest, the United Wa State Party (UWSP), did not attend the first day of the four-day plenary meeting...
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July 27, 2016
One hundred farmers from a village in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state appeared in court on Monday after the national army filed a lawsuit against them...
A man prepares methamphetamine pills before heating and inhaling them in a house on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, 20 August 2014. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
July 27, 2016
Myanmar’s upper house of parliament yesterday unanimously approved a motion submitted by an ethnic Shan lawmaker to combat rampant illegal drug sales...
A male pangolin in its enclosure at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Takeo province, Cambodia, 20 February 2016. Photo: Mak Remissa/EPA
July 26, 2016
Smuggling of illegal wildlife to foreign countries will be closely monitored and strictly controlled to prevent wild animals from extinction, state...