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State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
March 18, 2019
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to tackle discrimination in issuing national IDs and passports to people with Hindu and Muslim faiths...
March 18, 2019
CB Bank spokesperson told ‘Myanmar Now’ that GGS Company Ltd. managing director Thein Htwe who was recently arrested under corruption charges along...
March 18, 2019
This week on International Day of Action for Rivers, Karen Rivers Watch is demanding that all large dams planned and under construction on Myanmar's...
Caretaker Chief Minister U Myint Maung of Tanintharyi Region (Photo: U Myint Maung)
March 18, 2019
Tanintharyi Region Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Myint Maung was appointed as caretaker chief minister on Tuesday...
March 18, 2019
The local hospital has one doctor, who cannot visit the camps, and the hospital lacks medicine and basic equipment, a camp leader says. Internally...
Photo by – RFA/ The meeting with the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army)
March 18, 2019
Following the meeting with the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) delegation led by Lt. General Yar Pyae and representatives of Shan State Progress Party (SSPP...
March 18, 2019
The RCSS/SSA chair also defended the organization’s claim to territory in northern Shan State. Chairperson of the Restoration Council of Shan State/...
March 18, 2019
A Naypyidaw meeting has been proposed between delegations from the government, military, and EAOs not signatory to the NCA. A delegation from the...
March 15, 2019
Yit Law indigenous peoples in Chipwi call for halt to eight proposed dams in N'mai Hka and Ngaw Chang Hka rivers on International Rivers Day on March...
March 15, 2019
Myanmar army has taken more than a dozen leaders of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland -Khaplang (NSCN-K) led by Yung Aung into custody...
Photo: Myanmar NAVY
March 15, 2019
Myanmar continues to deliberate forming coast guard in order to strengthen maritime security, according to Xinhua quoting Deputy Minister of Defense...
Sai Kar LanePhoto by – Zawnyi Nyikyi/ The victim, 25-year-old Sai Kar Lane
March 15, 2019
The gunfire came from nearby clashes, although it is unknown which armed groups were fighting at the time the 25-year-old man was hit. A local man...