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July 11, 2019
The Burmese government has demanded that the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) provide an inventory list of its weapons, as well as disclosure...
July 11, 2019
U Aung Lian, a Chin State Hluttaw representative from Chin League for Democracy (CLD), criticized the Chin State government over its management of...
Myanmar men using their mobile phones at a teashop in Yangon. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
July 11, 2019
A powerful German spyware company had its hacking tools spotted in Myanmar, MIT Technology Review reported. Gamma Group, a German company that sells...
July 11, 2019
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has arrested a group of Myanmar nationals working there for using Singapore to mobilise support for armed...
July 11, 2019
More than 30 people from Kan Pyin village in Buthidaung Township have been sequestered in a monastery by a military troop. The villagers have been...
July 10, 2019
Leaders of the Arakan Association (Singapore) (AA-S) were arrested yesterday and this morning while they were in their homes in Singapore. The...
July 10, 2019
‘We are living on alert,’ says a local. Some 104 people who live in the lowlands of Belin Township, Mon State, were evacuated on Tuesday to relief...
July 10, 2019
Ethnic armed organization leaders weigh in on the current state of affairs in Special Regions 2 and 4. Ethnic armed organization leaders have been...
July 10, 2019
People with disabilities in Arakan State have not appreciated their rights completely, said U Hla Myint, chairperson of the Arakan State Association...
July 10, 2019
Gold is being extracted from cassava plantations, locals say. Locals in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley say that continued gold mining is affecting...
July 10, 2019
The UN agency’s recent findings suggested that they ‘hadn’t worked together with local people,’ the KNO secretary says. The Kachin National...
July 10, 2019
Three detained on suspicion of involvement in landmine explosion Three people including the brother-in-law of Khaing Thukha, information officer of...