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September 15, 2016
The following is the official statement from the Oval Office. PRESIDENT OBAMA: It is an extraordinary pleasure for me to welcome State Counselor Aung...
September 15, 2016
The following is the official statement from the Oval Office. PRESIDENT OBAMA: It is an extraordinary pleasure for me to welcome State Counselor Aung...
Photo: KIC
September 12, 2016
As many as 2,000 villagers from 12 villages in Mae Tha Waw areas have fled their villages in fear of being caught in the crossfire between the...
Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
September 9, 2016
The House of Representatives Bill Committee submitted a privacy and security bill at the parliamentary session held on September 8.
Child soldiers release in 2013. Photo: Khine Zar Mon/UNICEF Myanmar
September 9, 2016
The Tatmadaw today released 55 children and young people as a result of coordinated efforts with the United Nations to implement the 2012 Joint...
Lawyer U Robert Sann Aung in his Yangon home. Photo: Mizzima
September 8, 2016
Although just 12 percent of the population of Myanmar has access to the Internet, online speech is becoming an increasingly important theme in...
Rakhine ethnic people repair a road at the Rakhine ethnic Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Min Gan quarter, Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 25 August 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
September 7, 2016
The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) says it is concerned about cuts to IDP food aid by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in parts of...
Attendees observe during the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 31 August 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
September 5, 2016
A Framework for Political Dialogue (FPD) is set to be concluded before the second round of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference,...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C-R) speaks during the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 31 August 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
September 2, 2016
At a press conference held at Naypyitaw yesterday, the joint organising committee of 21st Panglong Conference said that they were told by the State...
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing speaks during the opening conference of Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw on 31 August 2016. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
September 1, 2016
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said that clinging to armed struggle was contrary to democracy at a time when wishes and wants can be attained by...
The opening conference of Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw on 31 August 2016. Photo: Nay Thar/Mizzima
September 1, 2016
Peace talks between Myanmar's government and warring ethnic minorities started today in a bid to end decades of conflict that have claimed thousands...
Lower house Pauktaw constituency MP, Aung Kyaw Zan. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
August 31, 2016
A House of Representatives MP from Rakhine State introduced an urgent motion on August 30 requesting that non-Myanmar experts on the Arakan State...