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April 2, 2020
Chit Min Tun — In her Facebook post, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that she used Facebook for quick and effective contact with people in...
April 2, 2020
The Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,...
Caption : Internally displaced Kachin ethnic people sit inside a temporary refugee camp at Tan Phae village Roman Catholic church in Myitkyina, Kachin State, northern Myanmar. Photo: Seng Mai/EPA
April 1, 2020
The Myanmar government should take urgent steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission among the estimated 350,000 people displaced by conflict...
People wear masks at the arrival lounge at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
March 31, 2020
Myanmar's Yangon International Airport has announced that all international commercial passenger flights will not be allowed in all Myanmar airports...
March 29, 2020
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has expressed concern over reports of mounting civilian casualties and growing displacement triggered by the latest...
Arakan Army. Photo: AA
March 28, 2020
The Arakan Army (AA) which is fighting the national army in Rakhine and Kachin states has “very little chance” to join the country’s peace process...
Photo: The Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services
March 28, 2020
The Myanmar Army raided the headquarters the Kaungkha militia in northern Shan state on Thursday, seizing illegal drugs, interrogating leaders, and...
Photo: MOI
March 27, 2020
The Myanmar government is planning to draw up a plan to provide prompt response to possible Covid-19 infection at internally displaced persons (IDP...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
March 26, 2020
By Mizzima Editorial - Myanmar has a decision to make. Take what may seem drastic – and undoubtedly unpopular – measures in the face of a to date low...
March 26, 2020
He failed to get on board the last Indigo flight to Yangon from Kolkata on the night of 20th March. Since then, life for 50-year old Thin Nyay has...
Soldiers from the Arakan Army. Photo: AA
March 25, 2020
Myanmar has officially designated the Arakan Army as a terrorist organization. The declaration was published in official notices in state media. The...
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March 25, 2020
Myanmar has locked down a village in Chin state where the country’s first confirmed coronavirus patient had stayed, while a second person who has...