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December 19, 2025
Myanmar junta arrests over 200 people under election protection law
December 18, 2025
UN General Assembly keeps Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun as Myanmar’s UN...
December 17, 2025
Chin groups condemn Mrauk-U hospital attack by Myanmar junta as war crime
April 8, 2016
Forever Group signs new deal with Thaicom satellite
Myanmar’s leading entertainment and media company, Forever Group, will boost its digital delivery and high definition TV coverage with a long-term...
Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, following their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on 5 April 2016. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
April 8, 2016
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets new role as special adviser
Myanmar’s president Wednesday signed a bill giving Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of...
US President Barack Obama. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
April 8, 2016
Obama calls new Myanmar president and Suu Kyi
The White House on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama called Myanmar's President HtinKyaw and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, praising the...
Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi, left, and Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi at a joint press in Nay Pyi Taw on 5 April. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
April 7, 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi meets China counterpart in FM debut
Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi met her Chinese counterpart Tuesday in the first diplomatic foray of her new pro-democracy government,...
Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion. Photo: Canadian Government
April 7, 2016
Canadian Foreign Minister coming to Myanmar
The Canadian Embassy in Yangon says Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion is due to set foot in Myanmar for a two-day visit to meet with the new government.
Delegates at last month's meeting in Chiang Mai. Photo: Phanida/Mizzima
April 5, 2016
Follow-up meeting between ethnic armed groups planned
Ethnic armed group leaders say another possible “summit” meeting of groups that have not signed the Myanmar National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) may be...
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) soldiers. Photo: Mizzima
April 5, 2016
Shan State tension increases as new government searches for peace
The elusive road to peace remains entrenched in Shan State, as Myanmar’s first democratically elected civilian government took office last week.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures as he answers a question from a reporter during a press conference on the sidelines of the fourth session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China, 08 March 2016. Photo: How Hwee Young/EPA
April 5, 2016
Chinese foreign minister visiting Myanmar
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to Myanmar from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to Chinese media.
Myanmar refugee Myat Win, 27, who lost both her legs after stepping on a landmine inside Myanmar, near the Thai border area, walks into the Mae Tao clinic grounds in the Thai - Myanmar border city of Mae Sot, Thailand. Photo: EPA
April 4, 2016
UN Secretary General calls for increase in action to get rid of mines
The UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon has called for action around the world to get rid of mines used as weapons of war.
Myanmar migrant workers, who are accused of the killing two two British tourists, Zaw Lin (R) and Wai Phyo (L) are escorted by a Thai police officer after they were sentenced to death at the Samui Provincial Court, on Koh Samui Island, Thailand, 24 December 2015. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
April 4, 2016
Judicial report cites Thai court’s failings in Koh Tao murder trial
An international report on the murder trial which convicted two Myanmar migrant workers in the beating death of a British man and woman has been...
December 24, 2015
What can Myanmar learn from the Nepal quake
Before the devastating 2015 earthquake hit Nepal, the small, underdeveloped country had made some of the right moves to prepare for a quake disaster...
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo. Photo: Mizzima
December 24, 2015
A Christmas message from Myanmar’s first Roman Catholic cardinal
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Myanmar’s newly appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, issued a Christmas message on Tuesday, naming the National League for...