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August 17, 2015
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has called a hastily arranged leadership meeting on Monday to prepare for a showdown with their...
August 17, 2015
The Shan Human Rights Foundation has expressed concern about the danger posed by Myanmar military shelling that they claim targeted the Shan State...
August 17, 2015
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace has approved a new contribution of US$3 million to the...
August 17, 2015
The Information Ministry has instructed Cherry FM radio, run by Thura U Shwe Mann's daughter-in-law Daw Zay Zin Latt, to suspend operations, an...
Archive photos of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Myanmar Parliament Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann in Nay Pyi Taw on December 23, 2011. Photo: Mizzima
August 17, 2015
The two biggest contenders in Myanmar’s upcoming elections, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) and the governing military backed...
August 17, 2015
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) has today, 13 August, launched an emergency appeal to provide further help to...
August 14, 2015
The British Embassy has expressed concern regarding recent events which saw USDP Secretary-General Maung Maung Thein and USDP President Thura U Shwe...
August 14, 2015
A spokesperson for the US embassy in Yangon has expressed US government concern over the use of Myanmar state security forces to intervene in a...
August 14, 2015
Sixteen-year-old Wut Yee, left to fend for herself and her younger brother, was relieved when her exhausted mother finally came home after a week’s...
President Thein Sein (C) greets members of the Union Solidarity and Development Party during their first conference in Naypitaw on October 14, 2012. Photo: Mizzima
August 14, 2015
Mynamar President Thein Sein will not pursue a second term as president by running in the general elections scheduled for early November, an official...
August 12, 2015
Aung San Suu Kyi has called on voters to change the leadership of the country and back her National League for Democracy (NLD) in upcoming elections...
August 12, 2015
The Peace Support Group believes that the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) represents a real opportunity to help bring an end to more than 60...