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A view of the Telenor Myanmar headquarters in Yangon. Photo: Telenor Myanmar
April 29, 2016
Telecom operator Telenor Myanmar has named two start-ups it has accepted for its first accelerator programme, business website dealstreetasia.com...
Logging truck, Strand Rd., Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 29, 2016
Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the new government of Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, the Global New Light of...
Credit: Isreal Embassy, Yangon
April 29, 2016
A delegation of senior members from the Myanmar livestock and dairy farms sector visited a demonstration dairy farm in Vietnam this week, under the...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the UJMC met at the Horizon Lake View hotel in Nay Pyi Taw on 27 April 2016. Photo: Nay Thar/Mizzima
April 28, 2016
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a national peace conference within the next two months, the Global New Light of Myanmar reported...
April 27, 2016
Mining Company Wanbao has decided to reach out in a new video released on 25 April explaining the companies view on corporate social responsibility...
Aung San Suu Kyi ,State Counsellor and Foreign Minister of Myanmar meets with diplomats at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, 22 April 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
April 27, 2016
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will discuss peace initiatives with the Union-level Cease-fire Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) today,...
U Gambira at a court in Maha Aungmye Township on 30 March 2016. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
April 26, 2016
Myanmar authorities should dismiss politically motivated immigration charges against a prominent former activist monk and release him from detention...
Thura Shwe Mann, former parliament speaker arrives to attends the Amyothar Hluttaw (upper house parliament) as an observer during the first day of upper house parliament session in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 03 February 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
April 26, 2016
Former Union parliament speaker and party chairman Thura U Shwe Mann has called for an investigation into the legality of his dismissal from the...
U Shwe Mann. Photo: Mizzima
April 25, 2016
Myanmar's former ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has sacked 17 senior members including U Shwe Mannn, former acting party...
Dawei, Tanintharyi region. Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
April 25, 2016
Myanmar has approved a $2.6-billion investment by Longwin Global Petrochemical Co Ltd, a joint venture company, to set up a five million MT oil...
U Gambira at a court in Maha Aungmye Township on 30 March 2016. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
April 25, 2016
Burma Campaign UK yesterday called for the immediate and unconditional release of U Gambira, and all the remaining political prisoners in Myanmar.
Many Kokang refugees are elderly and children. Photo: SHRF
April 25, 2016
Myanmar Army expansion and ongoing abuses since last year in mountainous areas along the Kokang-China border is making it impossible for tens of...