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Kachin Manau Park, Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State
January 9, 2020
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will reportedly attend the 72nd Kachin State Day celebration this week after the event recently came under fire for...
Teachers at an educational workshop held at No. 1 High School in Maungdaw. (Photo - Pyan Hlwar)
January 9, 2020
The Myanmar Teachers’ Federation says it won’t assist in the upcoming 2020 election if the government does not backtrack on plans to increase the...
Seng Nu Pan (left) and Paw Lu
January 9, 2020
Two Kachin youth activists working with Kachin internally displaced people (IDPs) have been chosen as recipients of the Freedom of Expression Award...
Photo : Aung Myat Thu
January 8, 2020
Aung Myat Thu — The Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) leader Gen. Yawd Serk said that they would try to hold the fourth meeting of 21st Century...
Myanmar soldiers march during a parade commemorating the 74th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 27 March 2019. Photo: EPA
January 8, 2020
Myanmar’s military has filed nearly 50 lawsuits against critical journalists, individuals, and organizations it has accused of defamation during the...
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar through the Palongkhali border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 09 October 2017, after crossing the Naf river. Photo: Abir Abdullah/EPA
January 8, 2020
Sai Wansai — Myanmar holds the dubious distinction of coming in fourth in a list of five countries in the world that drove the most people into exile...
January 8, 2020
One woman was injured and several houses were damaged amid a hail of bullets and artillery fire near Mahar Muni village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan...
January 8, 2020
The Kyauktaw Agricultural Science Institute will reopen on January 13, after closing its doors temporarily due to recent small arms and artillery...
January 7, 2020
The central celebration of the 73rd Mon National Day (MND) will be held in Mawlamyine on February 9th this year. Organizers of the event are calling...
Current nine members of NMSP Central Executive Committee (photo: NMSP)Current nine members of NMSP Central Executive Committee (photo: NMSP)
January 7, 2020
At the recent 10th New Mon State Party [NMSP] central committee conference Nai Hongsar was elected to the position of Chair of the NMSP. Other newly...
A Kachin refugee family eating near Lung Byeng village in Waimaw township in Kachin state. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 7, 2020
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement discussed the Strategic Plan for Resettling Internally Displaced Persons-IDPs and Closing IDP...
January 7, 2020
The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has claimed to have killed two Rohingya men in a so-called gunfight with suspected drug smugglers along the...