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December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
December 28, 2025
Voters in eastern Shan State cast ballots amid security conc...
Development Media Group
Soldiers from the Arakan Army / Photo - AA
December 23, 2019
War-affected area might widen in Arakan State, AA says
Fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army may intensify in Arakan State and the conflict zone could widen, the AA said in a statement...
Development Media Group
December 23, 2019
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi questions militancy as negotiating tact...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi used a recent speech to ask whether it was necessary for non-state armed groups to continue to hold arms and...
Development Media Group
The Tatmadaw said its troops also seized a photo from U Kyaw Aye Maung as evidence, which it said showed him taking part in a military parade in front of Arakan Army leader Maj-Gen Twan Mrat Naing.
December 23, 2019
Slain village administrator wasn’t AA-affiliated, family say...
A village administrator in Arakan State’s Minbya Township, accused by the Tatmadaw of being an Arakan Army (AA) cadre and found dead earlier this...
Mizzima
December 23, 2019
Arakan State farmers face difficult harvest due to fighting
Though the harvest season is upon farmers in Arakan State, a local from Minbya Township says many are struggling to reap their paddy with fighting...
Network Media Group
December 22, 2019
Infant Dies of Exposure after Villagers Flee Fighting
A five-month-old infant died in northern Shan State’s Lashio Township on Tuesday as cold temperatures take their toll on local villagers forced to...
Narinjara
December 22, 2019
Bodies of two young Chin people recovered at Ann
Two bodies of young Chin people were recovered with serious bullet-injuries at a location near to Gan Gaw Myint village under Ann Township, where the...
Mizzima
December 22, 2019
Mothers call on army to let their two forcibly-conscripted c...
Parents have called on the army to let their two ethnic Kayan children from Hsi Hseing and Pekon Townships in southern Shan State who were forcibly...
Mizzima
December 22, 2019
Myanmar has only achieved 50% electrification, according to...
Myanmar has achieved 50 percent of nationwide electrification in December, according to a release from Myanmar State Counsellor Office on Friday...
Mizzima
Kangyidaunk Hua Hmong garment workers. Photo: Myo Min Tun for Mizzima
December 22, 2019
Kangyidaunk Hua Hmong garment factory trilateral talk fails
The planned trilateral negotiations at Hua Hmong garment factory in Ayeyarwady Region, Kangyidaunk Township, among labour leaders, employer and the...
Mizzima
December 22, 2019
Call for action to be taken against those posting personal d...
House of Representatives Women and Child Rights affairs committee chairwoman Dr. Khin Soe Soe Kyi said after a parliament session that those who...
Kachin News Group
KIA battalion 36 fighters who are resisting enemy Burmese troops in their territories in Muse township, northern Shan State, Burma.
December 22, 2019
Burma Army, KIA Clash in Northern Shan State
Troops from the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) 36th Battalion engaged in a gunfire fight in the Mungbaw area of Muse Township in...
Development Media Group
December 22, 2019
Explosions precede Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s latest visit to Ar...
Three explosions rocked Manaung Township in southern Arakan State just hours before State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived there on Thursday...