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Petroleum and natural gas offshore supply base (Photo/Internet)
October 29, 2017
Residents have made their objections known, but that hasn’t deterred a company set on erecting an offshore supply base in the Gulf of Mottama near...
October 29, 2017
At an event this week celebrating the 29th anniversary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), a party leader expressed concern over...
Mon State General Administrative Department office (Photo – MNA)
October 27, 2017
Mon State is undertaking administrative house cleaning, with legal proceedings underway against eight ward and village administrators involved in...
October 27, 2017
Amid increasing quarrying projects that threaten to destroy the natural environment, residents have banded together to form a conservation network...
October 27, 2017
A leader of the Kachin Independence Organization has criticized the government for shutting out a new ethnic bloc trying to pursue peace talks.
Seven members of the All Mon Region Democracy Party’s (AMRDP) Mawlamyine township office submitted their resignation letter on October 25.
October 27, 2017
In a further fracturing of Mon political forces, several leading members of the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) have en masse resigned.
Ambassador of the European Union to Myanmar, Mr Kristian Schmidt
October 27, 2017
The new Ambassador of the European Union to Myanmar, Mr Kristian Schmidt, will represent the European Union in Myanmar and serve as Head of the EU...
Mon nationals and monks in the U.S. (Photo – MNA)
October 26, 2017
Mon communities in the United States have donated over US$30,000 (K40.7 million) to the Mon National Education Committee (Central) to support Mon...
German ambassador to Myanmar Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel. Photo: Annika Banggerter
October 26, 2017
The German ambassador to Myanmar Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel has described the situation in Rakhine state as "extremely serious and deeply worrying ", a...
Minister of Home Affairs for the government of Bangladesh Asaduzzaman Khan (R), shakes hands with  Myanmar's Home Affairs Minister Lt.Gen Kyaw Swe (L), during a meeting on security and law enforcement matters, at Ministry of Home Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on 24 October 2017. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
October 25, 2017
Myanmar and Bangladesh reached a 10-point agreement on Rohingya refugees at a meeting held yesterday in Naypyitaw and attended by representatives of...
Myanmar freelance photographer Minzayar Oo (R) arriving to attend the Rory Peck Awards 2017 in London. Photo: Rory Peck Trust/Facebook
October 25, 2017
Myanmar freelance photographer Minzayar Oo attended the Rory Peck Awards in London on Monday 23rd October to receive the Martin Adler Prize 2017...
October 25, 2017
Ethnic negotiators say headway has been made in their latest peace talks, with agreements reached on all but one of the eight preconditions before...