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June 2, 2017
All village administrators from Maungdaw south were summoned for a May 20 meeting with Border Guard Police to discuss the current security situation...
June 2, 2017
The body of a young man was found in a Bangladesh refugee camp on May 25, according to residents.
Namtu Township Committee for Assisting Refugees helps displaced families from Hsaik Hkawng Village Group to return home. (Photo – Sai Ba Nyan)
June 2, 2017
Over 100 families from Namtu township returned to their village on May 30 after they fled an outbreak of fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Ta’ang...
June 2, 2017
The Karen National Union (KNU) is calling on the Tatmadaw to remove military camps that have proliferated in Hpapun District, to the concern of the...
June 2, 2017
There is a once-in-a-lifetime political moment unfolding around us, as the people of Myanmar (Burma) strike for a new status quo of politics and...
May 31, 2017
Colonel Min Tun, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army, a central executive committee member of the Arakan National Council and a member of the...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar’s environmental conservationists celebrated a rare victory this week in honor of a 53,000-acre stretch of wetlands in Mon State that was...
May 31, 2017
At least one ethnic political party is fuming after an accord was signed last week at the closing of peace talks that were poorly attended. The Mon...
May 31, 2017
The Mon State Department of Education will expand 69 basic education government schools for the 2017-2018 school year, according to U Myo Tit Aung,...
Decorated Indian lawyer and women's rights campaigner, Indira Jaising
May 31, 2017
The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key step in an...
May 31, 2017
A reporter was abducted, dragged into a waiting vehicle, and then critically wounded in an auto accident on May 26, near the town of Loikaw, in...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked northeast after their bodies...