News

March 22, 2016
Members of the Save the Salween Network gathered at Wan Sala village in Shan state’s Mong Ton township on 14 March to mark International Rivers Day...
March 22, 2016
Just over 12 percent of students in Chin State due to sit matriculation exams failed to turn up, the highest absentee rate of any state or region in...
March 22, 2016
Thirty Kachin State civil society organisations (CSOs) called for a permanent halt to all dam projects in Kachin State due to a lack of transparency...
March 22, 2016
Residents of the Pein Hne Taw village group in Mon State said they oppose plans for mineral testing and a cement factory in the foothills of the...
People gather after Sittwe bomb blast
March 21, 2016
A bomb exploded loudly at midnight on Thurday 10 March in Sittwe, but no one was injured said Win Naung a police officer from Sittwe District.
March 21, 2016
Two Burma Army Deserters were found guilty of raping two girls aged eight and five and sentenced to prison in two separate cases at Sittwe District...
March 18, 2016
Since the beginning of March the Burma Army has launched 15 offensives, many with jet fighters and helicopter gunships, against the Ta’ang National...
March 16, 2016
Farmers have not been paid over half a billion kyats of promised compensation for farmlands ruined by the Myanmar Oil and Gas (MOGE) Myanmar to China...
March 16, 2016
U Htin Kyaw of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was elected to be President of the Republic of the Union Union of Myanmar during a Pyidaungsu...
General Saw Ler Pwe
March 16, 2016
The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) leader Major General Saw Ler Pwe, also known as Na Kham Mwe, died aged 55 from cancer on 13 March said...
March 15, 2016
Leaders of the Christian Kachin-based anti-narcotic group Pat Ja San (PJS) said on 6 March that they were unaware that the group is being sued by U...
The NLD's Dr Lin Htut, the MP for Lashio
March 12, 2016
The National League for Democracy’s (NLD’s) Dr Linn Htut, who represents Lashio in the Shan State Hluttaw (parliament), is favourite to become the...