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Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) holds talks with leaders from the United Nationalities Federal Council at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Yangon, July 17, 2016. (Photo: RFA)
August 16, 2016
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. General George S.Patton (1885-1945) “Please take a chance on the NCA (Nationwide...
Mon State Chief Minister, Hluttaw Deputy Speaker and Mon monks at the new Bop Htaw Statue (Photo: Internet)
August 16, 2016
Mon State Chief Minister U Min Min Oo has urged all Mon people to be united during the opening ceremony of the new Bop Htaw statue at the entrance...
August 16, 2016
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Arakan State are struggling with food shortages after the monsoon season hinders aid efforts.
August 16, 2016
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army is still waiting for State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to reply to its formal request to join the Union Peace...
Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 15 August 2016. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
August 16, 2016
The Union Peace Conference or 21st Century Panglong will be held every six months and non-signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement will be...
A trawler harbored at Teknaf land port with stones from Myanmar.
August 16, 2016
Bangladesh has planned to import at least four million metric tons of boulder stones from Myanmar to use those in Padma Bridge, said a report in Cox’...
August 16, 2016
The delay in the National Electrification Project (NEP) has caused villagers to doubt it will become a reality, but they are worried that the second...
August 16, 2016
A lance corporal and platoon commander from the Karen National Union’s Kawkareik police force was attacked and killed by a man wielding a sword. The...
August 16, 2016
Burma’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) have objected to a plan to construct a new...
CSOs representatives presented at regional civil society forums in Mon State, in 2014 (Photo: HURFOM)
August 16, 2016
The role of Civil Society Organizations emerged in Burma during the late 1990s led by students and citizen journalists in Yangon. The term “CSO” has...
August 16, 2016
Around 1,000 youths converged for International Youth Day in Karen State’s capital Hpa-an last Saturday.
August 16, 2016
Residents from Shahtuzup village in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley believe that two men that have been missing since Friday are being detained by the...