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January 9, 2026
HRW calling for justice for Rohingya as ICJ hearings on the Myanmar...
January 9, 2026
Myanmar junta airstrike on Khin-U IDP camp kills three civilians and...
January 9, 2026
Infant and three women killed as Myanmar junta drops 300-pound bombs on...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the co-ordination meeting on a national energy policy at the Myanmar International Convention Center-2 in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 26, 2017
Transportation and electricity sectors most important infrastructural...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday identified the transportation and electricity sectors as the most important infrastructural...
Arakan Army fighters. Photo: Arakan Army/Facebook
April 26, 2017
Amnesty calls for urgent action to be taken over death threats to...
Amnesty International has called for urgent action to be taken after journalist Nay Min Aung (known as Min Min) received death threats after...
Representatives from political parties and organizatins in Shan State are seen at the Shan State National Level Political Dialogue. Photo: IPRD
April 25, 2017
State-level political dialogue begins in Shan State
Shan State started a three-day State-level political dialogue in Taunggyi yesterday, a meeting described as a milestone and a significant step taken...
The Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) and the second Panglong conference held in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 25, 2017
21st Century Panglong Peace Conference to be held on 24 May
Myanmar’s government, military, and eight signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) agreed on Monday on eight points with their...
April 21, 2017
Peace Commission to meet Northern Alliance this month
Adviser Aung Soe from the Government’s Peace Commission (PC) has told Mizzima that the Peace Commission would meet northern alliance, which fiercely...
A staffer of Thuriya Naywin (The Sun) journal, Wai Yan Heinn, 27, was found dead with stab wounds at office in Yangon on April 16 morning. He was believed to be killed a few days ago. Earlier this year, the publisher of the journal was arrested for reporting in the journal on business of Thura Shwe Mann's family in 2015. Credit - Wai Yan Heinn/Facebook
April 21, 2017
RSF calls for thorough investigation into journalist’s murder
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was shocked to learn that news weekly publisher Wai Yan Heinn was found stabbed to death in Rangoon on 16 April, and...
April 19, 2017
Myanmar publisher whose magazine criticised the establishment found dead
A Myanmar publisher whose magazine has criticised the military, political and business establishment was found stabbed to death in his office at the...
Myanmar ethnic armed groups leaders attend a meeting at the headquarters of United Wa State Army (UWSA) in Pangsan of Myanmar's northern Shan State on May 1, 2015. Photo: AFP
April 18, 2017
Questions over UNFC members attending Pangkham summit
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) will not attend the summit meeting of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) scheduled to be held in Pangkham, the general...
A general view of Shwe Gas terminal in Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
April 10, 2017
China’s trans-Myanmar pipeline to start pumping oil in May
A pipeline pumping crude oil from Myanmar ’s Rakhine coastline into Yunnan Province in China will finally be operational in May after several delays...
Amnesty calls for the release of Lahpai Gam. Screenshot: YouTube/Htoi Aung
April 10, 2017
Amnesty calls for release of Lahpai Gam
Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release from prison of Lahpai Gam, who is suffering from health problems, who the NGO refer to as...
Delegates vote to elect a new leadership at the KNU Congress in Law Khee Ler, Kayin State, on 6 April 2017. (PHOTO: KNU)
April 7, 2017
Election for new KNU leadership concluded
Sixty nominations for new leaders to represent the Karen National Union (KNU) were reportedly cast by secret ballot yesterday at KNU headquarters in...
April 7, 2017
Ethnic delegations meet in Chiang Mai
A two-day meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, concludes on Thursday between two ethnic negotiating teams – the Delegation for Political Negotiations (...