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January 24, 2019
The RCSS and SSPP were fighting nearby, although it is unknown which group’s weapons hit the 22-year-old man. A 22-year-old man suffered serious...
Chief of Arakan Army named General Twan Mrat Naing
January 23, 2019
Very recently, the Tatmadaw’s information team warned the media and newsmen against using the term ‘civil war’ to refer to country’s domestic...
The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener is visiting Rakhine State on 22 January and 24 January. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
January 23, 2019
Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Myanmar, arrives to Sittwe airport Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 22...
January 23, 2019
The Myanmar government will establish a coast guard force to safeguard its 2,080-km-long coastline and territorial waters, Xinhua reported. The new...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
January 22, 2019
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that elimination of corruption was her government’s objective. She was speaking at the opening ceremony of...
January 21, 2019
A vehicle carrying border guard police was ambushed by ARSA terrorists in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, on 16 January, and six police were injured in the...
January 21, 2019
The IDPs had taken refuge in a Wa-controlled area, and were reportedly ordered by the Burma Army to go back to Mongpan. More than 300 internally...
January 21, 2019
The SNLD has asked the UEC to look into the process by which the Shan affairs minister for the region was elected. The Shan Nationalities League for...
January 21, 2019
The military’s True News Information Team described the Arakan Army as ‘just an insurgent group.’ State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi gave...
January 21, 2019
An investment festival to attract investors for the development of Rakhine State will be held at Ngapali beach. This festival will be the first ever...
Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: EPA
January 21, 2019
The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called...
January 18, 2019
‘This is the people’s desire. We won’t change our policy on the Myitsone hydropower dam,’ the Kachin Democratic Party chairperson said. Ethnic Kachin...