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August 14, 2019
Myanmar authorities seized a total of 138,000 stimulant tablets in Hpakant township, Myanmar's Kachin state, Xinhua reported. The tablets worth 690...
(File) Myanmar youth attend the launch ceremony for the Myanmar's Youth Policy at the Myanmar International Convention Center 2 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 05 January 2018. Photo: EPA
August 14, 2019
The government has introduced a national youth policy to serve as a guideline for the welfare and development of young people, Xinhua reported,...
August 14, 2019
Geologists from the Irrigation and Water Resources Management Department have inspected a hill at Thae Phyi Gone village on Yangon-Mawlamyine highway...
August 14, 2019
‘We thank the Thai king and queen. They gave a place to us,’ a villager from Ban Mai Samarkee said. Kachin people living in Thailand’s Chiang Mai...
August 14, 2019
Five ethnic Rakhine villagers, including a schoolteacher, arrested last week have been charged under Myanmar’s Counter-Terrorism Law and were...
August 14, 2019
Artillery shells landed in Myin Tin Ma village in Minbya Township on the evening of 10 August, some houses were, local sources said. Before artillery...
August 14, 2019
The Youth Committee from Arakan National Party (ANP) requested the government to stop arresting Arakanese youths on suspicion of ties with the AA and...
August 14, 2019
Not less than five persons including a teacher and a village administrator, who appeared yesterday before the Buthidaung township court, have been...
August 14, 2019
Over 3000 villagers from 30 villages under Min Bya township, 50 miles away from Arakanese capital city of Sittwe, are presently facing acute shortage...
August 13, 2019
‘We protected our people,’ remembers one protester from Mongpan. Thirty-one years after people throughout Burma took to the streets to demand an end...
August 13, 2019
Human rights activists point out that the displacement is occurring despite the military’s unilateral ceasefire in northern Shan State. Nearly 500...
August 13, 2019
A committee fighting for indigenous rights is calling on the government to take responsibility for the damage caused by the jade mining industry. A...