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(Files) Kyaw Min Swe, chief editor of 'The Voice' weekly journal, talks to reporters after his trial at the Dagon township court in Yangon, Myanmar, 05 October 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
June 7, 2017
Authorities in Myanmar should immediately drop criminal defamation charges against Kyaw Min Swe, editor of The Voice newspaper, and Ko Kyaw Zwa Naing...
Decorated Indian lawyer and women's rights campaigner, Indira Jaising
May 31, 2017
The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key step in an...
May 31, 2017
A reporter was abducted, dragged into a waiting vehicle, and then critically wounded in an auto accident on May 26, near the town of Loikaw, in...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked northeast after their bodies...
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting of the second session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Nay Pyi Taw on 28 May 2017. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
May 30, 2017
Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater...
Two Wa soldiers from the United Wa State Army (USWA) stand armed on a construction site. Photo: AFP
May 30, 2017
Seven Northern Alliance non-ceasefire signatory armed groups have left the second meeting of 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference on Saturday for...
Participants of the peace conference meet on the third day of the Land and Environment session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 26 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
May 26, 2017
The Union Peace Conference— 21st Century Panglong (second session) discussed position papers in five sectors and reached agreement for the majority...
May 25, 2017
China can continue to bring "soft power" to Myanmar's peace process, Chinese experts said, as the Panglong peace conference began on Wednesday.
Activists Zaw Zaw Latt and Pwint Phyu Latt (back) released from Oe Boe prison in Mandalay on 24 May 2017. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
May 25, 2017
Myanmar granted amnesty to more than 250 prisoners ahead of peace talks being held Wednesday with ethnic rebel groups, including two activists...
Activists Zaw Zaw Latt and Pwint Phyu Latt (back) released from Oe Boe prison in Mandalay on 24 May 2017. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
May 25, 2017
Myanmar granted amnesty to more than 250 prisoners ahead of peace talks being held Wednesday with ethnic rebel groups, including two activists...
May 25, 2017
“The opening of the second session of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference on 24th May marks another important step in the advancement of...
A Rakhine ethnic man collects oil on the shore of Kyauk Phyu, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Photo: EPA
May 23, 2017
About 600 residents of the deep-water port town of Kyaukphyu in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Monday protested against Chinese oil tankers...