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December 17, 2015
San Maung Than — Protest organizers claim that over 2,000 residents from Arakan State’s Thandwe town demonstrated earlier this month in response to...
December 16, 2015
Village Administration Officers are forcing Rohingya villagers in Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) controlled areas to give the BGP money to allegedly...
Farmland earmarked for the construction of the cement factory (Photo: GS)
December 16, 2015
Locals have come out in opposition against a new cement factory plant that June Industry Ltd plans to build near Maekayo Village in Kyaikmayaw...
December 16, 2015
The parliamentary Judicial, Legal, Complaints and Appeals Scrutinizing Committee Chairman Thura Aung Ko said that there were many real estate cases...
December 16, 2015
The Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) announced, on 10 December, the launch of a $2.4 million capacity building program for media in Myanmar...
December 16, 2015
Three ethnic political parties have recently applied to join the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA), an alliance of ethnic political parties that...
December 16, 2015
A Chin youth group will teach displaced women how to make soap at Camp Victoria, the headquarters of the Chin National Front (CNF) in Thantlang...
Leaders of eight ethnic armed organisations at the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) in Naypyidaw on 15 October.
December 16, 2015
The nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) was unanimously approved by both houses of parliament (the Assembly of the Union) on 8 December.
December 16, 2015
The head of Falam township municipality, U Hlawn Sa Vung, opposes the allocation of land in Thanral, Myout, Baila and Kalrawl villages in Laizo...
December 16, 2015
Khine Nwe Oo — All candidates who ran for office in Tanintharyi Region have submitted their election expenses paperwork before the set deadline,...
Dr Myint Soe (Myanmar Medical Association – Hpa-an Executive)
December 16, 2015
Although U Thein Sein’s government, which took office before 2015, was a civilian government that shifted from a military government, conflict...
December 15, 2015
The Myanmar Opium Farmers' Forum has released the report of its third meeting according to a Transnational Institute (TNI) press release on 14...