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Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
January 21, 2017
The State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will attend the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Union Day on February 12 to be held in Panglong, Shan...
People walk through a street market in Yangon. Photo: AFP
January 20, 2017
A new census report reveals that an estimated 4.25 million people who were born in Myanmar now live abroad, according to a press release by the...
Photo: Wai Phyo Han/Facebook
January 20, 2017
Two bus conductors were arrested and handed over to Insein Police Station for committing physical assault against a female passenger at Sawbwagyigon...
January 19, 2017
Fujitsu yesterday announced that it is conducting training for employees from across all 22 departments of Myanmar's government in order to...
Dumdaw Nawng Lat, left and Langjaw Gam Seng, right. Photo: Facebook
January 18, 2017
Amnesty International as called for urgent action to be taken over two missing Kachin Pastors.
Aung Hlaing Oo (left) sent gift to Ambassador Andrii Beshta(right) on the opening ceremony. Photo by Deming Zhang
January 16, 2017
The first Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Myanmar was officially opened this week in Yangon. Both Myanmar and Ukraine would try their best to...
January 13, 2017
Visa, the leading global payments technology company, has welcomed today’s announcement from the Central Bank of Myanmar to remove restrictions on...
January 13, 2017
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Civil Society Organizations held a “Workshop on Natural Resource Ownership, Management, Sharing...
Yanghee Lee (R), the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, greets a Kachin ethnic woman with a child at the MaiNar KBC camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 January 2017. Yanghee Lee is in Myanmar on a 12-day visit to Kachin and Rakhine States in Myanmar. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
January 12, 2017
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee and delegation met with internally displaced persons in...
The government delegation led by Aung Kyi, centre, and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) meet in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 25 September 2016. Photo: Phanida
January 11, 2017
The Union government’s peace commission and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will meet again in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 13...
In this photograph taken October 13, 2016, armed rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect the frontline after it was hit by a military bomb during two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 11, 2017
Seven Kachin Independence Army troops (KIA) were killed as the Myanmar Army took over four more outposts from the powerful ethnic Kachin armed group...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
December 21, 2016
The Joint Coordinating Body for Peace Process Funding has been formed with 16 members, and the State Counsellor and National Reconciliation and Peace...