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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,...
Asia World port at Strand road in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a 40 million U.S. dollar long-term loan to boost development of Myanmar Industrial Port(MIP...
Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
Following an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farming zone in upper Myanmar, the Ministry of Health has urged farmers nationwide yesterday to carry...
Photo: Kyaw Min (Sittwe)/Mizzima
April 21, 2016
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ms Janet Jackson has issued the following statement regarding the boat capsizing on 19 April resulting...
Left to right: AP’s Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza receive the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting from USC Annenberg in Los Angeles on Friday, April 15, 2016.
April 20, 2016
Esther Htusan, a Myanmar journalist from Kachin State, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism alongside three of her colleagues...