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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
Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) delegation meet with Aung San Suu Kyi and a NLD delegation in Nay Pyi Taw on 23 December 2015. Photo: NLD Chairperson
December 24, 2015
Suu Kyi meets briefly with Myanmar Peace Center delegation
The Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) delegation met with Aung San Suu Kyi and a NLD delegation for about one hour on Tuesday in Nay Pyi Taw, to brief her...
Pensioners at Yangon Region Govt office Photo: Mizzima
December 24, 2015
Last-minute pensioners apply for flats and plots
More than 500 pensioners were waiting in line at Gate No. 4 of the Yangon Region Government Office on Tuesday to submit flat and plot applications...
Found guilty - Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin (front) and Wai Phyo (back) arrive for their murder case verdict at the Samui Provincial Court on Koh Samui Island, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, 24 December 2015. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
December 24, 2015
Myanmar migrant workers found guilty in Koh Tao murders case
Two Myanmar migrant workers have been found guilty and sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of two British tourists on the Thai island of...
December 24, 2015
North Dagon squatters refuse municipal eviction notice
The North Dagon Township city development committee recently sent eviction notices to people living in dwellings built along Ngamoeyeik Creek in Ward...
December 23, 2015
NGO raps ‘brazen bid for presidential immunity’
Myanmar’s parliament should reject a proposed law that would shield former presidents from prosecution for crimes committed during their terms in...
Damaged Buddha statues in Tarlay on 26 March 2011 after the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit in eastern Shan State.
December 23, 2015
INGOs push disaster risk education in Myanmar
With earthquakes, flooding and cyclones an ever-present danger, the importance of DRR or Disaster Risk Reduction education is growing in importance...
Polio alert by WHO. Here is a measles vaccination initiative. Photo: Measles Initiative
December 23, 2015
Two cases of polio found in Rakhine State: WHO
The World Health Organization has issued an alert that two cases of polio have been found in Rakhine State, according to a press release on December...
December 22, 2015
Displaced persons in Shan State reluctant to go home
Although clashes between the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and government troops have subsided, about 2,000 displaced persons who fled from the...
December 22, 2015
EU to give USD 76 million in assistance for food security and peace
The EU announced on December 21 that they would provide Euro 70 million (US$ 76.09 million) to Myanmar for promotion of food security, the rule of...
December 21, 2015
Parliament joint affairs committee recommends car import reduction
The Parliament Joint affairs committee for Projects and Financial Development has suggested,in a report submitted to the Union parliament, that the...
A session of the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22 November 2015. Photo: EPA
December 18, 2015
People and malaria on the move
International Migrants Day, on 18 December, has its roots in Asia. This year, it falls on the heels of news from the World Health Organization (WHO...
Temporary displacement site in Mong Hsu Township, Shan State on 4 December 2015. Credit: OCHAtime
December 18, 2015
Myanmar - where peace and war can be found at the same time
Recently, there have been a series of armed clashes between the Shan State Army - North and government troops in Mong Hsu Township, Shan State. Along...