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October 24, 2016
Leaders from the Karen National Union and the News Mon State Party agreed more effort is needed to prevent territorial disputes between the two...
DPNS 28th Anniversary Celebrations.
October 21, 2016
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) chairman, U Aung Moe Zaw, urged the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army to declare a nationwide...
October 21, 2016
Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September...
Local making bamboo hat in Chaungzone Township (Photo: MNA)
October 21, 2016
The Mon State Government will implement a local business stimulus project in the forthcoming 2017-2018 fiscal year in the respective townships of...
Bulldozer seen on June Cement Industry Ltd’s land (Photo: MNA)
October 21, 2016
The June Cement Industry Ltd will not return farmland purchased from locals in the Pyartaung area, Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State and will continue...
October 21, 2016
The Karen State government has been making arrangements for the return of over 90 Burmese refugees from refugee camps in Thailand back to Burma.
Protesters in Chipwe
October 20, 2016
Residents of Chipwe in Kachin State staged a protest march to demand that the Lisu National Development Party (LNDP) retracts its demand for a Lisu...
Photo: Khaing Kaung San/Facebook
October 20, 2016
Regional civil society organizations said on Wednesday that ongoing conflicts between the government military and armed ethnic groups in Shan and...
U Kyaw Thu Zaw, director of the Parliament Office (left) Reporters who came to cover the Shan State Hluttaw (right)
October 20, 2016
Independent media outlets covering the Shan State Hluttaw (parliament) in the state capital Taunggyi have been discriminated against and are being...
Meeting between leaders of the KNU and the NMSP
October 20, 2016
Leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) reached an agreement to prevent future conflicts between each other...
October 20, 2016
Soldiers from the breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army clashed with the government militia, the Border Guard Force, in Htee Poe Zan village tract...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Myanmar Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi at BRICS-BIMSTEC summit 2016 on the sidelines of the 8th BRICS summit in Goa, India, 16 October 2016. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
October 20, 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor, has asked for countries in the region to understand the complexities of the issue surrounding problems...