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December 24, 2018
The statement from the Tatmadaw comes after three ethnic armed groups that had previously been frozen out of the peace process – the Myanmar National...
December 24, 2018
President Office spokesman Zaw Htay said that they had adopted policy and guidelines for shifting the General Administration (GA) Department to put...
December 21, 2018
‘Rakhine local social organizations have provided things to those IDPs. I don’t think they will be able to provide things for next wave of IDPs,’ a...
December 21, 2018
Afraid of stepping on mines, locals in the Tanintharyi township are opting not to harvest their areca nuts. Locals in Tanintharyi’s Yephyu Township...
Arakan Army fighters. Photo: Arakan Army/Facebook
December 21, 2018
Arakan Army (AA) and government military troops were fighting fiercely in Rakhine State and the AA said that the government military had used...
December 21, 2018
The 20 detainees are all women, Lahu leaders say. Twenty ethnic Lahu women who are also Bible students in Shan State Special Region 2 continue to be...
December 21, 2018
The Karen community have officially opened what they call the Salween Peace Park in Karen State in order to protect the region’s environment. The...
December 21, 2018
The Indo-Myanmar Manipur Business Matching Investment Conference and Exhibition is being held at Mandalay Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (...
December 21, 2018
Citing a lack of protection, Myanmar workers lobby the Chiang Mai governor for more safeguards to be put in place while working in Thailand. An open...
December 21, 2018
‘I want to work and live peacefully on my own land,’ said one Demoso villager whose land was seized by the Burma Army on this week in 1991. Locals...
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Photo: Prakash Singh/AFP
December 20, 2018
“I took the time with a singular objective of working on myself…this was a purely personal trip for me focused on only one dimension: meditation...
December 20, 2018
Mon State legislative assembly deputy speaker Dr Aung Naing Oo said the Union Parliament had a plan to amend laws enacted by States/Regions...