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A Kachin refugee family eating near Lung Byeng village in Waimaw township in Kachin state. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 7, 2020
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement discussed the Strategic Plan for Resettling Internally Displaced Persons-IDPs and Closing IDP...
January 7, 2020
The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has claimed to have killed two Rohingya men in a so-called gunfight with suspected drug smugglers along the...
December 23, 2019
Forget the heady and romantic dream that marriage may conjure up. It is impossible not to feel sorry when the heart-breaking stories of young women...
December 23, 2019
Police officials says arrests have been made in the case of a teenager trafficked in late November by a relative from a tea shop in Mandalay and...
Government delegation and ten Ethnic Armed Organizations hold a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon. Photo: MNA
December 23, 2019
The Government delegation and Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement -Signatories (NCA-S) held a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National...
December 23, 2019
Though the harvest season is upon farmers in Arakan State, a local from Minbya Township says many are struggling to reap their paddy with fighting...
December 22, 2019
Parents have called on the army to let their two ethnic Kayan children from Hsi Hseing and Pekon Townships in southern Shan State who were forcibly...
December 22, 2019
Myanmar has achieved 50 percent of nationwide electrification in December, according to a release from Myanmar State Counsellor Office on Friday...
Kangyidaunk Hua Hmong garment workers. Photo: Myo Min Tun for Mizzima
December 22, 2019
The planned trilateral negotiations at Hua Hmong garment factory in Ayeyarwady Region, Kangyidaunk Township, among labour leaders, employer and the...
December 22, 2019
House of Representatives Women and Child Rights affairs committee chairwoman Dr. Khin Soe Soe Kyi said after a parliament session that those who...
1949 Suppression of prostitution act: The root of discrimination and exploitation
December 22, 2019
Myanmar’s 70-year-old antiquated prostitution law has been desperately called for amendment from sex worker community and NGOs. Under the law, woman...
People at the Muse town border gate in Myanmar's Shan State as they wait to cross into China. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
December 22, 2019
More than 240 Chinese nationals were arrested for illegally entering Myanmar through Shan state during the first half of the year, mostly to look for...