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June 30, 2016
Even though there are schools, teachers and students in Maungdaw, no educational arrangement or coaching teachers in support of Rohingya children in...
June 30, 2016
A town road sign under construction in Tachileik in north eastern Shan State was set on fire and destroyed on 21 June.
June 30, 2016
Myanmar Press Council (MPC) held a daylong discussion with various ethnic media editors on the issue of ethnic media developments in the country.
Yanghee Lee visits an IDP camp in Myitkyina (Photo UN)
June 30, 2016
Last week officials prevented the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, from visiting areas of Shan State...
June 30, 2016
The Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID) in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of Cornell University, in...
Mizzima's Yangon Head Office. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
June 30, 2016
British NGO ARTICLE 19, which campaigns for freedom of expression, has called on Myanmar prosecutors to drop a criminal case brought against Mizzima...
June 30, 2016
Burma’s new Government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National league for Democracy party, is in a position to repeal a swathe of colonial-era laws that...
Chaw Sandi Tun speaks to media outside Maubin township court after being sentenced to six months in jail on 28 December 2015. Photo: Yin Mon Khing/Mizzima
June 29, 2016
Myanmar’s new government should use its parliamentary majority to repeal or amend the many military and colonial-era laws used to criminalize...
June 29, 2016
The Arakan police on Tuesday arrested a kingpin of the drug-peddling racket after seizing 798000 Yaba tablets from Satrokya jetty in the State...
June 29, 2016
The Burma Army is engaging in “systemic torture” of civilians, a report by the Ta’ang Women’s Organisation (TWO) has found.
June 29, 2016
Mon State has experienced 110 drug offences occurring between January 1 and June 24. On June 24, 1,944 Yaba tablets were seized in Mudon Town, near...
June 29, 2016
When outsiders ask, “How many principalities were these in the Federated Shan States (1922-1947)?” elderly people would answer differently: some “33...