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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
July 3, 2018
Women’s Work Committees’ Congress recommends no discussion on role of...
Leaders of the Women’s Work Committees Congress, hosted by the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), have objected to recommendations from some...
UPDJC vice chairperson Dr Salai Hlyan Hmone speaks the opening speech of the 15th UPDJC meeting held in NRPC Centre in Nay Pyi Taw on June 29. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
July 2, 2018
Ethnic groups to continue demanding autonomy
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) vice chairperson Dr Salai Hlyan Hmone said ethnic groups will continue demanding democracy, equality...
Zaw Htay, director general of the President’s Office. Photo: Mizzima
June 27, 2018
Third session of 21st Century Panglong Conference to include minority...
The third session of the 21st Century Panglong Conference will also focus on minority rights and gender equality, Zaw Htay, director general of the...
Myanmar migrants return to the Kyauklonegyi camp in Myawady on 23 June, 2018.
June 25, 2018
Arrests of migrant workers in Thailand see 1,200 return to Myanmar
Thai authorities arrested Myanmar migrant workers without valid documents and many of them have reportedly returned through the border at Myawady.
The 2nd Nationwide NLD party congress at the Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) in Yangon on 23 June 2018. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
June 25, 2018
NLD appoints six additional CEC members
Six additional Central Executive Committee (CEC) members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were appointed at the Second All-Myanmar party...
Myanmar migrant fishermen work at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA-EFE
June 22, 2018
Thai employer sacks 16 Myanmar migrant workers over protest
Over 200 Myanmar migrant workers left their weeds processing factory in Ayuddhaya Province, Thailand in protest on June 19 after they were not given...
A mother feeding her baby at a refugee camp in Kachin State. Photo: Mizzima
June 22, 2018
Not all Kachin IDPs can get WFP assistance
Some IDPs said that not all of them could get financial assistance provided by World Food Programme (WFP) as they provided this assistance based on...
Internally displaced people at a camp in Kachin state. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
June 20, 2018
IDPs resettled in Kachin State
Authorities in Kachin state resettled 95 refugee families in newly built low-cost housing in Waingmaw township on Tuesday evening, the first time...
Union Minister Dr. Win Myat Aye, centre-right, accepts a cash donation for families residing at temporary relief camps due to flash floods occurring in their homes in Mottama of Mon State. Photo: MNA
June 18, 2018
Flash floods expected to hit Mon State
Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye yesterday visited Mawlamyine and Mottama of Mon State that is facing flash...
Thura Shwe Mann. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
June 16, 2018
Thura Shwe Mann always bears a licensed gun
Legal Affairs and Special Cases Review and Analysis Committee Chairman Thura Shwe Mann says he carries a licensed gun for self defence in case of...
Burmese refugees waiting to see a doctor at the Mae Tao clinic in the Thai-Myanmar border city of Mae Sot, Tak province, in north west Thailand. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
June 15, 2018
Community empowerment grants to benefit people in Southeastern Myanmar
Four critical service grants have been awarded to project partners in Karen and Mon States as part of the USAID-supported Advancing Community...
June 14, 2018
ILO to adopt new standard for violence and harassment at work next year
The International Labour Organization (ILO) will adopt a new standard for violence and harassment against women and men at work next year based on...