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Farmers Demanding Compensation for Farmland Destroyed by Gas Pipeline
February 24, 2015
Fifty farmers who have not yet received compensation for their farmland that was destroyed by mud from a gas pipeline construction demonstrated in...
February 24, 2015
The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) member parties will contest the upcoming 2015 general election, according to UNA member parties.
February 24, 2015
Phil Thornton —Ethnic communities have spent decades building vital services in the absence of government help, but there are now fears interference...
Rural Area Development and Social Economic Enhancement Event
February 23, 2015
The Union government granted nearly 7 billion kyats to Mon State on Tuesday. The funding, announced during Vice-President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham’s visit...
Lt. Gen Yawd Serk Visits the Paoh Self-Administered Zone
February 23, 2015
Lieutenant General Yawd Serk the chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) recently met U Aung Kham Hti chairman...
February 23, 2015
Over one hundred residents who fled their homes to avoid fighting were shot and killed in Laukkai Township in the government-controlled Kokang Self-...
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
February 19, 2015
All the organisations fighting in and around Laukkai must take responsibility for what is happening said the government army chief when meeting...
February 19, 2015
The situation in Kachin State remains tense after a recent round of shelling directed at the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)'s armed wing last...
KBC Urges Churches Worldwide to Pray for Murdered Teachers
February 19, 2015
The Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) has issued a call for churches worldwide to hold fasting and prayer sessions in order to bring justice in the...
February 19, 2015
Parents and education service providers of migrant communities in the Thai border town of Mae Sot are struggling to continue sending their children...
Press Conference: The Long Road to Recovery: Ethnic and Community-Based Organisations Leading the Way to Better Health in Eastern Burma, at FCCT 19 February 2015 (Photo-U Soe Aung)
February 19, 2015
A new report by a network of ethnic community health organisations was released today at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, Bangkok. The...
Refugees in Lashio
February 19, 2015
Over 4,000 refugees have sheltered in Mong-Su monastery, in Lashio Town, Northern Shan State since fighting started on 9th February in and around...