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May 15, 2019
Five farmers were arrested on May 13 at East Pyinsuhpawng police checkpoint in Mindat town for bringing machetes and they have been charged under a...
May 14, 2019
An unknown gunman shot a man in the Thai-Burma border town of Tachileik in eastern Shan State on Monday. The victim was 21-year-old Maung Aung Pyae...
May 14, 2019
Indian ambassador to Burma Saurabh Kumar discussed creating opportunities for less restricted travel between Mizoram and Chin State in a recent...
May 14, 2019
Upper House MP Myo Win from Mon State No. 8 constituency asked question regarding the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) at Union Parliament (joint...
May 13, 2019
The Indian Consulate, in collaboration with Sagaing Region Government and Border Trade Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Tamu organised a meeting...
May 10, 2019
Internally displaced people in Miza village, Paletwa Township are subject to compulsory forced labor by Myanmar military soldiers who offer them a...
May 9, 2019
The two Myanmar based Reuters journalists, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, charged under and jailed for breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act...
May 7, 2019
A new Kachin party plans to contest the 2020 General Election after successfully registering its name with the Union Election Commission (UEC). "Our...
May 7, 2019
Members of the Kachin public have planned a protest for Tuesday in Hpakant, Kachin State against the “excessive extraction” of jade from the area...
May 7, 2019
Ko Nay Win San, a chief reporter of Rakhine’s Sittwe-based Development Media Group (DMG) is scheduled to be questioned again at Sittwe Police Station...
The Irrawaddy Burmese-language editor Ye Ni. Photo: Ye Ni/Facebook
April 26, 2019
Myanmar's military should drop its criminal defamation case against independent news outlet The Irrawaddy over its coverage of the conflict in the...
April 26, 2019
(ICRC relief team distributing relief items to the IDPs at Ahtet Myat Hlae Village’s IDP Camp in Ponnagyun Township) DMG Interview with Ms. Dena...