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October 8, 2019
A rural woman from Ain Gyan village in Sa Nyin village tract under Myebon township of Arakan in western Myanmar was injured seriously today in a...
October 8, 2019
Old buildings constructed under British rule are lugubrious looking compared to brand new buildings in Arakan State’s capital Sittwe, one of the...
October 7, 2019
The government of Chin State has decided to place statues of Burmese independence hero General Aung San and three Chin leaders who signed the...
October 7, 2019
Two Burma Army soldiers were injured by a landmine explosion in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township on Friday, according to residents of the area...
October 7, 2019
A Police force is carrying out security of Arakan State by collaborating with the Tatmadaw and civil organizations, Police Chief Colonel Kyi Lin,...
October 7, 2019
An owner of a construction company and a driver were shot by two unidentified gunmen in Sittwe on Friday night, according to No.1 Police Station in...
October 7, 2019
Cha Lu Aung | DMG Bamboo entrepreneurs face difficulties because they cannot easily obtain bamboo from Saidin Mountain Range due to clashes between...
Photo: UWSA
October 7, 2019
United Wa State Army (UWSA) liaison office in-charge in Lashio, Nyi Run, said that they had arrested a drug trafficking gang with over 4.8 million...
Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organised to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
October 7, 2019
Myanmar has rejected an offer by China to facilitate a visit by a group of Rohingya refugees to its Rakhine state to investigate the situation there...
The late Aung Kyaw Naing, aka Ko Par Gyi
October 7, 2019
The fact that five years have passed since journalist Ko Par Gyi’s killing highlights need to reform the 1959 law that facilitates military impunity...
(File) Rohingya men escorted by armed policemen sit in a light truck at the KyaukTan township, south of Yangon, Myanmar, 16 November 2018. Photo: EPA
October 7, 2019
A court in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region sentenced 21 Rohingya Muslims from northern Rakhine state to two years in jail for trying to travel to Yangon...
Representatives of JMCS, Mon meeting with local people (photo: Aung Naing Win)
October 7, 2019
Although the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has yet not joined the national Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC-S), it has been handling a conflict...