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Myanmar people gather for refreshement at a teashop in Yangon many hangout to chat and browse Facebook with their mobile phone. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
June 25, 2019
Facebook says it has been able to detect and remove “considerably more hate speech than before” as it faces criticism over failure to keep a check on...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Etienne Laurent/EPA
June 24, 2019
Facebook targets Myanmar, Sri Lanka in removing hate speech Facebook is seeking to “police” its content to try to remove hate speech with Myanmar and...
June 24, 2019
Mandalay Region legislative assembly approved on June 21 at its session to establish new ministry in Mandalay Region government for creating job...
Reps. Eliot Engel. Photo: AFP
June 21, 2019
Bipartisan lawmakers on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee joined forces Thursday to advance legislation adding new sanctions on Myanmar's...
Armed police officers stand guard near Sittwe Court. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
June 21, 2019
Twenty-three villagers from Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Rakhine state were brought to trial Thursday in Sittwe District Court on charges of violating...
June 21, 2019
Three people have died of H1N1, influenza virus, so far in Myanmar's Yangon region, Dr Thar Tun Kyaw, an official from the Ministry of Health and...
June 21, 2019
I write this letter – as a proud founder, current Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of Mizzima – to our readers, audiences, those who...
Former child soldier Aung Ko Htay outside court. Photo: Mizzima
June 20, 2019
The elder sister of jailed Myanmar former child soldier Aung Ko Htway surrendered to a Yangon courthouse Wednesday morning after spending 18 months...
Aung San Suu Kyi campaigns during 2015 election. Photo: Mizzima
June 20, 2019
NLD party spokesman Dr Myo Nyunt said that both the President and State Counsellor would take part in election campaigns for the party in person...
June 19, 2019
A repatriation process to send over 200 Myanmar refugees back to their villages in Myanmar has been postponed due to bad weather, eastmojo reported...
(File) Muslim people gathering near temporary tents at the Thel Chaung Muslim majority village during a census taking near Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 01 April 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
June 19, 2019
An independent review into how the UN System operated in Myanmar in the years leading up to the mass exodus of the Rohingya following alleged human...
June 19, 2019
The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the prime construction agency of the Indian government, will reconstruct the Women Police Training Centre...