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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
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
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
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
The International Labour Organization (ILO) will adopt a new standard for violence and harassment against women and men at work next year based on...
Photo: ANSCM
June 14, 2018
A purported Rakhine national-level political dialogue which was not officially permitted by the Myanmar government was held in Mae Sot, Thailand and...
Min Ko Naing, a former political prisoner and one of the 88 Generation leaders. Photo: Mizzima
June 11, 2018
One of the 88-generation leaders, Min Ko Naing, said that they would designate land for officially opening the 8888 museum, on 30th anniversary of...
June 8, 2018
The Eighth regular sessions of Second House of Representatives and House of Nationalities which were scheduled to convene on June 8 were cancelled on...
(File) People line up to cast their votes at a polling station in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 08 November 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
June 7, 2018
The Union Election Commission announced yesterday that election observers at home and abroad can apply to the UEC for the right to observe the 3...
Myanmar's President Win Myint. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 6, 2018
Myanmar President Win Myint has barred a group of Shan state ministers and lawmakers from traveling to Indonesia on a food-safety study tour, leaving...
Myanmar's Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) attends the closing ceremony of the second session of the 'Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong' in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 29 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 5, 2018
Officials from Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) said the forthcoming third session of 21st Century Panglong Conference would discuss security sector...
June 2, 2018
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) spokesman Col. Naw Bu confirmed to Mizzima that the Tatmadaw (government troops) and the KIA had engagements and...
May 31, 2018
Coming on the heels of the 10th anniversary of Cyclone Nargis – an unprecedented catastrophe that exposed Myanmar's utter lack of disaster...