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New Mon State Party (NMSP) Vice-chairperson Nai Hong Sar
September 1, 2016
Nai Hong Sar, vice-chairman for New Mon State Party (NMSP) and member of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), was critical of a speech...
September 1, 2016
A motion that will be heard in The Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house of parliament) asks for the removal of foreigners in the Arakan State Advisory...
September 1, 2016
A huge volume of illegal drugs worth Kyat of over 700 million were recently seized in Maung Taw of Arakan State, informed the police. According to...
The opening conference of Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw on 31 August 2016. Photo: Nay Thar/Mizzima
September 1, 2016
Peace talks between Myanmar's government and warring ethnic minorities started today in a bid to end decades of conflict that have claimed thousands...
August 31, 2016
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) fielded 25 people from its own ranks and affiliate groups to join a United Nationalities Federal Council (...
Participants attend the National Ethnic Youth Conference that took place last July in Panglong.
August 31, 2016
The Nationalities Ethnic Youth Alliance (NEYA) was invited to attend today’s Union Peace Conference (also called 21st Century Panglong Conference)...
Khun Htun Oo, chairperson for Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, profiled in this undated photo.
August 31, 2016
Khun Htun Oo, chairperson for Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), has cancelled plans to attend the Union Peace Conference (also called...
Kachin Independence Army soldiers at the frontline (Photo: Zen Myat/Karen News)
August 31, 2016
A report by the frontline humanitarian organisation Free Burma Rangers has said that the war in Kachin and Shan States is escalating.
Lower house Pauktaw constituency MP, Aung Kyaw Zan. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
August 31, 2016
A House of Representatives MP from Rakhine State introduced an urgent motion on August 30 requesting that non-Myanmar experts on the Arakan State...
August 31, 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-Moon during his working visit to Myanmar paid a courtesy call on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the State...
August 31, 2016
The largest state in Burma also has the highest number of human rights violations in the country, according to a recent report.
Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
August 30, 2016
A joint organizing committee for the Union Peace Conference—21st Century Panglong met at Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday, state media...