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March 24, 2017
The Myanmar military have seized more outposts of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in areas bordering China, state media...
U T Khun Myat holds talks with Dr. Albrecht Schnabel. Photo: GNLM
March 23, 2017
The Deputy Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw U T Khun Myat met with the head of the Asia-Pacific Unit for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)...
Photo: Office of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
March 22, 2017
Office of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services issued a press release which said a military column had found and seized 1,000 tons of abandoned...
Ethnic Rakhine protesters take part in a demonstration against a government push to speed up the citizenship verification process for the stateless Rohingya minority in Sittwe township, Rakhine state, on March 19, 2017. Photo: Khine Htoo Mrat/AFP
March 21, 2017
Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists in Rakhine state protested yesterday against a perceived government plan to give citizenship to some members of the...
March 16, 2017
The Lower House has approved a controversial motion urging the government to rename a bridge over the Thanlwin (Salween) River between Mawlamyine and...
Photo: Nanpu/Facebook
March 16, 2017
To mark International Rivers Network day which fell yesterday a protest was held at Myitsone with participants calling for a stop to all hydropower...
March 15, 2017
The second conference of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), an alliance of ethnic armed organisations that did not sign the Nationwide...
KNU 16th Congress, Law Khee Lar, KNU Headquarters. Photo: KNU-HQ
March 15, 2017
The Karen National Union’s 16th Congress began yesterday at Law Khee Lah (Lay Wah), Karen State, with the organisation expected to form a new...
U Hla Myint, seated, with Sean Turnell. Photo: Sean Turnel
March 13, 2017
U Hla Myint, economic visionary and forefather of Myanmar’s modern economics, has passed away at the age of 97. In reflection of his pioneering work...
(File) A woman walks along a deserted road in self-administered Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, 16 February 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
March 13, 2017
The escalation of a long-running conflict between Myanmar army and a Chinese-speaking ethnic armed group in Northern Shan State is affecting people...
Dr. Thet Thet Khaing (right).
March 9, 2017
House of Representatives MP Dr. Thet Thet Khaing said that domestic women laws should be enacted and enforced to enable Myanmar women to attend UN...
Myanmar Now Chief Reporter Swe Win speaks to journalists at a press conference held in the Myanmar Now office in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
March 9, 2017
‘Myanmar Now’ Chief Reporter Swe Win, who is being sued under section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Act, said that he has no plan to apologise to U...