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June 29, 2016
Burmese government forces on Monday attacked the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), according to an official from the RCSS...
June 29, 2016
တုုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုုိင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား အားလံုုး ပါဝင္သည့္ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးသိုု႔ တက္ေရာက္ရန္ တုုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုုိင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး...
June 29, 2016
At least one villager was killed, while three were injured and another five arrested by the Burma Army on Saturday 25 June in northern Shan State’s...
June 29, 2016
Over 900 migrant households have applied to register for residency identification in Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State, as the government plans to...
Burmese workers outside Talay Hall upset because they were unable to see Aung San Suu Kyi
June 28, 2016
Thousands of Burmese migrant workers who waited outside Talay Thai Hall in Samut Sakhon, Thailand were denied the opportunity of seeing State...
June 28, 2016
A Karen National Union controlled checkpoint is fuelling tension between the Burma Army in southern Burma.
June 28, 2016
Burmese border guard police (BGP) brutally killed a fisherman and seriously injured two on June 21 at night while they were fishing at the Khayan...
June 28, 2016
The Karen National Union’s Taw Oo [Taungoo] district burned seized methamphetamine pills worth 400 million Kyat (around USD $350,000) in an event to...
Saw Isaac Po, JMC-U vice chairman 1, Photo: KNU HQ
June 28, 2016
Union level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JCMC) members have discussed forming state-level committees in Kayin and Mon States, state media...
June 28, 2016
Khun Kya Bu The Memoirs of Khun Kya Bu of Hsipaw Signatory to the Panglong Agreement. Foreword These memoirs, originally in Burmese, took a period of...
June 28, 2016
A coalition of 35 civil society organizations in Burma has issued a statement calling for the National League for Democracy-led government to suspend...
Opium poppies ready to be processed into heroine at a poppy field near Pekon township, southern Shan State, Myanmar, 20 December 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 27, 2016
In an effort to raise awareness and strengthen Myanmar’s response to the production, trafficking and use of illicit drugs, United Nations Office on...