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January 10, 2018
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Central Executive Committee emergency meeting has passed a resolution to continue their negotiations...
A copy of the Mon National Party’s letter which informs its members not to attend the Mon People’s Conference
January 10, 2018
The Mon National Party (MNP) and the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) will not attend the Mon People’s Conference which will be held by a...
January 9, 2018
The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) has nominated Salai Jacob Thang, a Chin national, as an Ambassador for Peace during the Asian Leadership...
Border Guard Force (BGF). Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
January 9, 2018
Maj. Naing Maung Zaw from Border Guard Force (BGF) confirmed to Mizzima that combined troops of Karen National Union (KNU) and BGF were fighting...
January 9, 2018
A meeting of the central committee for organizing the Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong was held yesterday afternoon in the meeting hall...
January 9, 2018
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) has decided to hold a meeting between the top leaders from both sides to obtain an agreement with the...
January 8, 2018
Drug seizures in 2017, in Kayin State tripled compared to 2016 and the majority of the arrests were made in Hpa-an and Myawaddy, according to the...
A soldier (C) stands guard as rescue workers search for the miners killed by a landslide at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 23 November 2015. Photo: Zaw Moe Htet/EPA
January 8, 2018
A landslide at a jade mine in Waykha village, Seikmu village-tracts, Phakant, Kachin State, killed five yaymasay illegal jade pickers and injured two.
January 6, 2018
Officials from the Rathedaung Township General Administration Office said that curfew under section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code was still imposed...
Mr Nigel Roberts, Interim Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Peace Fund. Photo: Thet Ko for Mizzima
January 6, 2018
Mizzima Editor in Chief Soe Myint sat down with Mr Nigel Roberts, Interim Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Peace Fund this week to...
January 6, 2018
Local residents have blocked a road near Lun-Nya Village in Hpa-an Township, Karen State since January 3, due to damages caused by the vehicles from...
January 5, 2018
Rapes are the most frequent crimes out of 136 crimes in the Mon State last year, according to the Mon State Police Force.