News

September 8, 2016
The Burma Army stopped a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) vehicle transporting medicine to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Eastern Kachin...
KNU Meeting About Union Peace Conference
September 8, 2016
After attending the Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) from 31 August to 3 September KNU members met with local youths,...
September 8, 2016
Armed clashes broke out in Karen State between splinter Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces and government backed militia.
September 8, 2016
Ethnic leaders have warned that now is not the time to give up arms, in reaction to a speech calling for disarmament by the Burmese Commander-in-...
September 8, 2016
One controversial and visible challenge coming out of the recently finished 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is the demand for the status of...
Lawyer U Robert Sann Aung in his Yangon home. Photo: Mizzima
September 8, 2016
Although just 12 percent of the population of Myanmar has access to the Internet, online speech is becoming an increasingly important theme in...
Front Row of Delegates at the Union Peace Conference on 3 September
September 7, 2016
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), a coalition of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), will continue with tripartite negotiations in an...
September 7, 2016
Generally, the China-Myanmar Joint Press Release or Statement of 20 August 2016 is seen as a diplomatic procedure normally issued after the end of a...
Rakhine ethnic people repair a road at the Rakhine ethnic Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Min Gan quarter, Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 25 August 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
September 7, 2016
The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) says it is concerned about cuts to IDP food aid by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in parts of...
Nai Thet Lwin, Union Minister of Ethnic Affairs (BNA)
September 7, 2016
The Union Minister of Ethnic Affairs, Nai Thet Lwin, said the Burmese military and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) should sign an immediate...
Nan Khin Aye Oo
September 7, 2016
The Kayin People’s Party (KPP) said that the public should have the right to elect state chief ministers in a paper submitted to the Union Peace...
September 7, 2016
At least 10,000 people cannot go back to their homes due to the uncertain climate caused by the so-called Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA),...