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November 11, 2016
Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) officers torched a house female teachers were using as temporary accommodation in Myient Hlut Village in Maungdaw...
An aerial view of Insein prison in Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
November 11, 2016
Myanmar’s government must seize the opportunity to break with its grim past where prisoners were subject to torture and appalling conditions by...
November 11, 2016
Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing’s recent China visit, United Wa State Army (UWSA) – National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) military friction or...
November 11, 2016
No potential candidates have surfaced to represent Mon political parties in the by-elections for the Pyithu Hluttaw position of Chaungzone Township,...
President U Htin Kyaw
November 11, 2016
In a Karen State Day message to the Karen people Burmese President U Htin Kyaw said that he looks forward to a thriving Karen State where factories...
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (C) delivers a speech on stage at Donald Trump's 2016 US presidential Election Night event as votes continue to be counted at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, New York, USA, 08 November 2016. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA
November 11, 2016
US Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Scot Marciel indicates the victory of Donald Trump in the US election is unlikely to signal major change in US-Myanmar...
Mon State Hluttaw representatives are seen presenting at the Hluttaw conference (Photo: Facebook/Aung Naing Oo)
November 10, 2016
The Mon State Hluttaw [Parliament] submitted a request letter to the Union Government on Monday, requesting to transfer staff members at the General...
TNLA Soldiers
November 10, 2016
The livelihoods of Namhsan Township residents in the Palaung (Ta’ang) Self-Administered Zone of northern Shan State have been seriously affected by...
Fifth Conference on Media Development in Myanmar at the Chatrium Hotel in Yangon on 07 November 2016. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
November 10, 2016
As questions over media freedom come to the fore under Myanmar’s new government, government officials, analysts and media people are meeting in...
November 10, 2016
The 25 October refugee repatriation, involving some seventy refugees, who left Thailand’s Tham Hin and Nu Po camps to return home voluntarily to...
Giant sign in Burmese reads “Stop all quarry projects in Kaylatha nature conservation area” (Photo: Belin News)
November 10, 2016
Quarry projects have been permitted to only operate along the territorial edge of the Kaylatha Mountain nature conservation area, in Belin Township,...
Rakhine children look at an armed guard  at the Si Taung village in Buthee Taung township, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, 25 April 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
November 9, 2016
Worsening inter-communal conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar is taking a terrible toll on children -- especially those living in the northern part of...