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December 19, 2025
Myanmar junta arrests over 200 people under election protection law
December 18, 2025
UN General Assembly keeps Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun as Myanmar’s UN...
December 17, 2025
Chin groups condemn Mrauk-U hospital attack by Myanmar junta as war crime
Aung Hlaing Oo (left) sent gift to Ambassador Andrii Beshta(right) on the opening ceremony. Photo by Deming Zhang
January 16, 2017
First Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Myanmar opened
The first Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Myanmar was officially opened this week in Yangon. Both Myanmar and Ukraine would try their best to...
January 13, 2017
Visa welcomes opening of Myanmar’s domestic payments industry
Visa, the leading global payments technology company, has welcomed today’s announcement from the Central Bank of Myanmar to remove restrictions on...
January 13, 2017
UNFC and CSOs hold workshop on natural resource management and sharing
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Civil Society Organizations held a “Workshop on Natural Resource Ownership, Management, Sharing...
Yanghee Lee (R), the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, greets a Kachin ethnic woman with a child at the MaiNar KBC camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 January 2017. Yanghee Lee is in Myanmar on a 12-day visit to Kachin and Rakhine States in Myanmar. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
January 12, 2017
UN special rapporteur visits Internally Displaced camps in Kachin State
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee and delegation met with internally displaced persons in...
The government delegation led by Aung Kyi, centre, and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) meet in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 25 September 2016. Photo: Phanida
January 11, 2017
Government’s peace commission and DPN to meet in Chiang Mai on Jan 13
The Union government’s peace commission and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will meet again in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 13...
In this photograph taken October 13, 2016, armed rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect the frontline after it was hit by a military bomb during two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 11, 2017
Myanmar military takes four KIA outposts
Seven Kachin Independence Army troops (KIA) were killed as the Myanmar Army took over four more outposts from the powerful ethnic Kachin armed group...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
December 21, 2016
Government and ethnic groups form Joint Coordinating Body for Peace...
The Joint Coordinating Body for Peace Process Funding has been formed with 16 members, and the State Counsellor and National Reconciliation and Peace...
A picture made available on 23 November 2016 of Myanmar refugees carrying children and their belongings arriving at a refugee camp near the border of China and Myanmar in Wanding town, Ruili city of Yunnan province in southwest China, 21 November 2016. Photo: EPA
December 21, 2016
Shan State fighting causes as many as 15,000 to flee to China
As many as 15,000 people have fled across Myanmar's border into China in the past month as fighting between the army and armed ethnic groups...
November 28, 2016
Myanmar must end prosecutions for critical speech - HRW
Myanmar authorities continue to arrest and charge individuals, including members of the ruling party, for criticizing the military and government,...
A picture made available on 20 November 2016 shows female soldiers of Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in action during the training session at a military camp near Laiza, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 19 November 2016. Photo: Seng Mai/EPA
November 25, 2016
Suu Kyi urges all groups to sign NCA amid heightened conflict in Shan State
Aung San Suu Kyi spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the recent conflict in Shan State involving the combined forces of the KIA, TNLA...
A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 08 November 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
November 22, 2016
People’s Alliance for Credible Elections to monitor By-elections
The People’s Alliance for Credible Elections (PACE) plans to monitor several aspects of the process to fill 19 vacant constituencies, both before and...
A senior officers inspects newly recruited members of the Myanmar Police Force standing in line as they take part in a training exercise in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 15 November 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
November 18, 2016
Information Committee formed for issues in Rakhine State
The President’s Office announced yesterday the formation of the State Counsellor Office’s Information Committee, state media reported on 17 November...