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January 10, 2018
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Central Executive Committee emergency meeting has passed a resolution to continue their negotiations...
Border Guard Force (BGF). Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
January 9, 2018
Maj. Naing Maung Zaw from Border Guard Force (BGF) confirmed to Mizzima that combined troops of Karen National Union (KNU) and BGF were fighting...
January 9, 2018
A meeting of the central committee for organizing the Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong was held yesterday afternoon in the meeting hall...
A soldier (C) stands guard as rescue workers search for the miners killed by a landslide at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 23 November 2015. Photo: Zaw Moe Htet/EPA
January 8, 2018
A landslide at a jade mine in Waykha village, Seikmu village-tracts, Phakant, Kachin State, killed five yaymasay illegal jade pickers and injured two.
January 6, 2018
Officials from the Rathedaung Township General Administration Office said that curfew under section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code was still imposed...
Mr Nigel Roberts, Interim Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Peace Fund. Photo: Thet Ko for Mizzima
January 6, 2018
Mizzima Editor in Chief Soe Myint sat down with Mr Nigel Roberts, Interim Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Peace Fund this week to...
January 5, 2018
The volunteers who are helping war refugees said that food relief supplies were needed for a growing number of refugees taking shelter in refugee...
January 3, 2018
The baton-passing ceremony was held January 2 at the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) General Headquarters in Laiza during which the post of...
January 3, 2018
In a traditional Chin family, either the oldest or youngest son receives the hereditament when the father passes away. If there is no son, the family...
January 2, 2018
Myanmar President Htin Kyaw attended a New Year's Day ceremony at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon on January 1.
Journalists wearing black outfits attend the press conference of Myanmar Press Council about the two arrested journalists in Yangon, Myanmar, 20 December 2017. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA-EFE
December 22, 2017
Myanmar must ensure that journalists can operate freely and safely, UN human rights specialists have urged, after two Reuters journalists were...
December 22, 2017
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) party chairman Aung Moe Zaw said that they have formed a ‘Progressive Democratic Force’ with other...