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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...
Danish Ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
April 25, 2016
Denmark has a proven track-record of successfully combining economic growth, high employment and social security and so it is fitting that there...
Myanmar-Bangladesh Border. Photo: Narinjara
April 22, 2016
Bangladesh’s border guard this month deported at least 340 Muslim Myanmar nationals – more commonly known as Rohingyas – without any resistance from...
Workers in an industrial zone in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
Today, U Thein Swe, Union Minister of Labour, Immigration and Population of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar welcomed Mr. Peter Lysholt Hansen,...