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December 19, 2019
Farmers in ethnic states across Burma are facing increasing abuses of their rights to land and livelihood by the government in recent years, farmers...
December 18, 2019
A 42 years old village administrator named U Nyan Thien was killed by a column of Myanmar security forces while a 30 years old rural woman named Daw...
December 18, 2019
At least 70 village administrators in Min Bya township of Arakan State in western Myanmar have decided to resign from their posts if the government...
Presentation of the Report on Drug Risk Reduction programs (photo:MNA)
December 18, 2019
A report made to the State Hluttaw [Parliament] held on December 16th, revealed that more funding is needed to implement drug abuse prevention...
A truck carries a container at the Ahlone international terminal port in Yangon. Photo: EPA
December 18, 2019
Myanmar's trade through sea routes reached over 4.8 billion U.S. dollars as of Dec. 6 in present fiscal year (FY) 2019-2020 which started in October...
People walk past a garbage dump on the outskirts of Yangon on June 5, 2019. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
December 18, 2019
Deputy Union Minister of Planning and Finance Maung Maung Win submitted a plan to borrow Euro 50 million from the government of Poland as an official...
Paul Lu at in front of Myitkyina prison when he was released on Dec. 16, 2019.
December 18, 2019
Kachin youth activist Paul Lu was released from a prison in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina on Monday morning after serving a three-month...
December 18, 2019
Members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed groups held an informal meeting with the Burmese government’s Peace Commission at an undisclosed...
House of Nationalities (upper house) Immigration, domestic/immigrant domestic workers affairs committee chairman Kyaw Htwe.
December 18, 2019
House of Nationalities (upper house) Immigration, domestic/immigrant domestic workers affairs committee chairman Kyaw Htwe said that they were trying...
A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA
December 18, 2019
The Myanmar government will not push for the much-delayed repatriation of Rohingya refugees living for more than two years in displacement camps in...
December 18, 2019
Myanmar police seized 6.6 kilograms of heroin and some stimulants in Shan state, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse...
December 18, 2019
A high school that was hit by an artillery shell in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township re-opened on December 12. The shelling, in Myothit ward,...