Mizzima

Miners search for jade stone near the heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
October 10, 2017
A warning shot from police at a jade mine in Phakant in Kachin State has killed a miner.
Peace Commission member Aung Soe. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
October 9, 2017
The government’s Peace Commission (PC), will reportedly meet with United Wa State Party (UWSP) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) in their...
Diplomates arrive at Sittwe Airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 02 October 2017. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA-EFE
October 4, 2017
The scale of the suffering inside Myanmar's Rakhine state is "unimaginable", the United Nations said Monday, after three of its members joined a...
USDP Central Committee Chairman Than Htay.
October 4, 2017
Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Central Committee Chairman Than Htay said at a meeting with new generation youth from Mandalay Region...
October 3, 2017
The Maungdaw Township Police Force has confirmed that ecstasy tablets worth nearly 4 billion kyat was seized on October 1 from two military personnel...
September 29, 2017
Local people from Putao, Machanbaw, Nogmung staged a protest demonstration on September 28 over designating more areas in the World Heritage...
September 26, 2017
The Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) of United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) spokesman Nai Aung Ma Nge said that they would meet...
Myanmar's Vice President Henry Van Thio addresses the 72nd Session of the United Nations General assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 20, 2017. Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP
September 21, 2017
Henry Van Thio, Vice President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, addressed the general debate of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly of...
September 21, 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Bangladeshi authorities to act judiciously in the case of two Burmese journalists held on spying...
September 20, 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday she does not fear global scrutiny over the Rohingya crisis, pledging to hold rights violators to account and to...
Unilever CEO Paul Polman speaks speaks during the Gaidar Economic Forum in Moscow, Russia, 12 January 2017. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA
September 17, 2017
Unilever CEO Paul Polman is one of a growing number of “global citizens” calling for an end to the violence in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State.
Minzayar Oo and Hkun Lat were assigned by GEO magazine. Photos: GEO
September 16, 2017
<p>The German magazine GEO has expressed concern over the detention by Bangladesh of two Myanmar journalists who were working in Cox&rsquo...