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Khin Suu Kyi/Mizzima
July 29, 2016
The plenary meeting of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) being held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State, will be extended for one more day because a number...
The streets of Mae Sot. Photo: Faces of Mae Sot
July 28, 2016
40 border based civil society organisations (CSOs) have sent an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi calling for the restoration of their original Myanmar...
Khaplang at his den flanked by his bodyguards. Photo: samir kar purkayastha/PCDN
July 28, 2016
India has asked Myanmar to act against four top leaders of the Sagaing-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K), including its...
The first day of the four-day plenary meeting of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State on 26 July 2016. Photo: Khin Su Kyi/Mizzima
July 28, 2016
Four ethnic armed organisations including the largest, the United Wa State Party (UWSP), did not attend the first day of the four-day plenary meeting...
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July 27, 2016
One hundred farmers from a village in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state appeared in court on Monday after the national army filed a lawsuit against them...
A man prepares methamphetamine pills before heating and inhaling them in a house on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, 20 August 2014. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
July 27, 2016
Myanmar’s upper house of parliament yesterday unanimously approved a motion submitted by an ethnic Shan lawmaker to combat rampant illegal drug sales...
A male pangolin in its enclosure at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Takeo province, Cambodia, 20 February 2016. Photo: Mak Remissa/EPA
July 26, 2016
Smuggling of illegal wildlife to foreign countries will be closely monitored and strictly controlled to prevent wild animals from extinction, state...
German Ambassador Christian-Ludwig Weber-Lortsch congratulating the graduates of the Myanmar Journalism Institute in Yangon on 21 July 2016. Photo: MJI
July 26, 2016
This week the German Ambassador to Myanmar congratulated graduates of the Myanmar Journalism Institute saying they had chosen a noble profession.
July 22, 2016
Participants at the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) Summit scheduled to be held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State, have agreed to focus primarily on a...
People crossing a busy road in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, 03 July 2016. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
July 22, 2016
Data on religion from the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census has been made publicly available by the Government of Myanmar. The United...
July 21, 2016
After a three-day meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the eight signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement have vowed to seek...
UNFC leaders and DPN members held a meeting on July 19 to prepare for the meeting with government delegates at Khum Phucome Hotel in Chiang Mai. Photo: Phanida
July 21, 2016
The Union Peace Conference or 21st Century Panglong Conference Preparatory Committee and Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) are meeting today...