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December 29, 2025
Each polling station in Myawaddy has fewer than 1,000 voters
December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
Shan Herald Agency for News
Photo by – Lashio Villager
February 7, 2020
Militia Group Seizes Paddy Fields In Lashio Township
An armed group aligned with the Burma Army has seized hundreds of acres of land from farmers in northeastern Shan State. The Mangpan People’s Militia...
Independent Mon News Agency
The meeting of the government officials and NCA-S EAO peace negotiation Team (photo: NRPC)
February 7, 2020
Peace process develops new ways forward, says NCA-S EAO
The government and the ten ethnic armed organizations who signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA-S EAO) have come up with a new move to...
Mizzima
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) pose for photos while shaking hands during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw Myanmar, 18 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
February 7, 2020
Myanmar plans to donate rice to Coronavirus-hit China
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deputy permanent secretary Aung Kyaw Zan said that Myanmar was planning to donate rice to China where hundreds of people...
Mizzima
Rakhine children play near a telecommunications tower at Sat Yoe Kya Ward, Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
February 7, 2020
Internet services suspended in Rakhine and Chin states
The Myanmar government directed all operators in the country to halt mobile internet service in five townships, citing security requirements and...
Mizzima
Chinese national flags flying on the border between Kokang and China’s Nansan township in Lincang, southwest China’s Yunnan province. Photo: AFP
February 7, 2020
Myanmar migrant workers fleeing China’s Yunnan without pay
Migrant workers returning to Myanmar from China’s Yunnan province because of coronavirus fears are walking away from their jobs without receiving the...
Kachin News Group
February 7, 2020
Thermal Scanners Installed On Sino-Burmese Border
With many migrant workers returning to Myanmar from China because of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) thermal scanners have been installed at border...
Kachin News Group
Kachin Manau Park, Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State
February 7, 2020
Union Day Commemorated During Manau Festival
After a controversy over its name, leading to its cancellation in January, the Manau festival in Myitkyina has been rescheduled from February 5 to 12...
Khonumthung News
February 7, 2020
CNF Not Allowed To Speak During Chin National Day
Members of the Chin National Front (CNF) said they will boycott the 72nd Chin National Day in Thangtlang town after the government denied the...
Khonumthung News
February 7, 2020
Chin Youth Don’t Want Shopping Mall On Football Ground
Youth in Hakha, capital of Chin State, are opposing a shopping mall the government wants to build at the location of their football ground. “I think...
Development Media Group
February 7, 2020
Ann man walks free after acquittal in counter-terrorism law...
An Ann Township resident charged under Myanmar’s counter-terrorism law was acquitted by the Kyaukphyu District Court and released on February 4...
Development Media Group
February 7, 2020
Internet blackout returns to five townships of Arakan, Chin...
Internet access has again been blocked in five townships of western Myanmar, just over a month after parliamentarians and activists demonstrated...
Shan Herald Agency for News
Bangkok Post | Pedestrians wearing face masks cross a road during the Lunar New Year of the Rat public holiday in Hong Kong on Jan 27 as a preventative measure following the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
February 6, 2020
NOVEL CORONAVIRUS: Implications of Shan and Kachin States 
Sai Wansai — When novel coronavirus exploded with a vengeance in China’s Wuhan, Hubei Province, the first worry for the people of Burma or Myanmar is...