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Photo: Sein Lyan Tun, the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Forever White Ribbon Film Festival 2018. Photo: Forever White Ribbon
December 14, 2018
Sein Lyan Tun, the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Forever White Ribbon Film Festival 2018, has called on men to be become involved in the...
December 13, 2018
‘There is no justice and a lack of rule of law,’ said one protester. Thousands of people protested in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina on Monday...
December 13, 2018
‘The main objective is for Lisu youth living in different townships and regions to work together and have unity among themselves,’ said a conference...
Demonstrators march in support of three local activists jailed by authorities during a rally in Myitkyina, capital of restive Kachin state on December 11, 2018. Photo: Zau Ring Hpra/AFP
December 13, 2018
Thousands of protesters on Tuesday took to the streets in northern Myanmar against the jailing of three anti-war activists in a rare public display...
December 13, 2018
“There is a large numbers of people don’t know how to seek justice and even though they sought, many of them felt unsatisfactory to the court...
December 13, 2018
More than 50 activists and supporters rallied at Maha Bandula Park Wednesday to mark the anniversary of two Reuters journalists were arrested one...
December 13, 2018
On December 5, Shan communities and local Members of Parliaments held a press conference in Yangon, City Hotel, to call for an immediate cancellation...
December 12, 2018
Village administrator Thein Win, from Thin Bone Dan village, Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, said IDPs who fled their home in the wake of fighting...
December 11, 2018
‘We are working together against unfair things,’ said one Kachin protester. Police in Myitkyina, Kachin State brought charges against three more...
December 11, 2018
After an MP raised a question in deliberations at Union Parliament session on December 6 on non-inclusion of the name of Myanmar Post and Telegraph (...
December 11, 2018
China is reportedly blocking the import of food for displaced communities in KIA-controlled areas. The Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) has said that...
December 10, 2018
The group blames ethnic Karen forces for the placement of explosives that have injured civilians; the KNU denies this. The New Mon State Party’s (...