Mizzima

Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
October 9, 2019
The United States and Myanmar partners celebrated achievements in Myanmar’s melon, sesame, coffee, ginger, and soybean sectors at the #MarketNext...
Photo: UWSA
October 7, 2019
United Wa State Army (UWSA) liaison office in-charge in Lashio, Nyi Run, said that they had arrested a drug trafficking gang with over 4.8 million...
Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organised to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
October 7, 2019
Myanmar has rejected an offer by China to facilitate a visit by a group of Rohingya refugees to its Rakhine state to investigate the situation there...
The late Aung Kyaw Naing, aka Ko Par Gyi
October 7, 2019
The fact that five years have passed since journalist Ko Par Gyi’s killing highlights need to reform the 1959 law that facilitates military impunity...
(File) Rohingya men escorted by armed policemen sit in a light truck at the KyaukTan township, south of Yangon, Myanmar, 16 November 2018. Photo: EPA
October 7, 2019
A court in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region sentenced 21 Rohingya Muslims from northern Rakhine state to two years in jail for trying to travel to Yangon...
October 4, 2019
A general view shows a Rohingya refugee camp at Teknuf in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA Myanmar has rejected an offer by China to...
Soldiers of the Ta-ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
October 4, 2019
Myanmar Police Force Shan State Chief, Pol. Brig. Gen. Zaw Khin Aung, told Mizzima that four policemen released by Ta’ang National Liberation Army...
October 3, 2019
The Kyauktada Township trial court sentenced Naw Ohn Hla and two Karen youths who were detained in connection with holding Karen Martyr’s Day in...
October 3, 2019
Police stand near the checkpoint at the Shwe Zar village in Maungdaw township, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA Police...
A ceremony to launch the nationwide migration of Unicode standard is opened by State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Union Minister for Union Government Office U Min Thu, Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung and officials in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Photo: MNA
October 2, 2019
The Myanmar government on Tuesday launched migration of Unicode standard which can comply with international encoding system to support the...
An injured monk is brought to the Sittwe Hospital in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 01 October 2019. Five people were reportedly injured after Myanmar security forces opened fire in the village of Mein Wa near Kyauk Taw township. According to local media reports, approximately 50,000 people have fled to temporary camps in recent weeks as fighting continues in the restive Rakhine state. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
October 2, 2019
Five civilians were injured early Tuesday by mortar shelling in Rakhine state, with some local residents accusing the government military of...
Photo: Thuriya Htet
October 1, 2019
The Sagaing regional government in northwestern Myanmar on Monday cancelled permission for a Chinese company to conduct inspections for a new copper...