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August 31, 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-Moon during his working visit to Myanmar paid a courtesy call on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the State...
Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
August 30, 2016
A joint organizing committee for the Union Peace Conference—21st Century Panglong met at Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday, state media...
Lt-Gen Mya Tun Oo talks to media at a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar on 20 July 2016.
August 29, 2016
Myanmar's army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has reshuffled top posts in the army, Reuters reported on 26 August. The reshuffle saw the...
Khaing Myo Htun. Photo: Earth Rights International
August 27, 2016
A Myanmar court denied bail to human rights activist Khaing Myo Htun on 25 August. Earth Rights International (ERI) said in a statement that it...
August 25, 2016
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the private sector have launched the first working group for Myanmar’s hydropower sector, according to a...
NSCN-K. Photo: Burma Link
August 22, 2016
The Myanmar military has denied there was a recent exchange of gunfire on Myanmar soil between the Indian army and an ethnic armed group, state media...
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo Photo: Mizzima
August 22, 2016
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar praised Canada for its efforts to help his nation transition to democracy after a half-century of military rule.
The KIA’s proclaimed capital, Laiza, which is directly split in half by the border with China’s Yunnan province in the background. Photo: Human Rights Watch
August 19, 2016
Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) spokesman Lt. Col. Naw Bu said that the forthcoming 21st Century Panglong conference would be affected to some...
August 18, 2016
Jade entrepreneurs have united to submit a signed proposal to the Union Government to suspend jade mining and jade exports with the aim of creating a...
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi (C) looks on as she and members of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) attend a meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 15 August 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
August 17, 2016
State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi left for China today at the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang.
Members of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) attend a meeting in Naypyitaw on August 16, 2016. Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
August 17, 2016
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) continued its second-day meeting in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday with discussions on approved agendas for...
T Khun Myat. Photo: Nay Thar
August 17, 2016
Myitsone project study and review commission Chairman T Khun Myat told people not to worry about the Myitsone dam construction project.