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April 28, 2016
Mon State government is unable to provide electricity to Ye Township with its 2016-2017 budget, according to a press conference by Mon State’s...
Refugees from Maung Hnama Village in Pyinnyarwa Village
April 27, 2016
Aid groups have been unable to reach 62 refugees in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State who had to flee their village due to intense fighting between the...
April 27, 2016
Mining Company Wanbao has decided to reach out in a new video released on 25 April explaining the companies view on corporate social responsibility (...
KNDO Chief of Staff Brig-Gen Saw Neh Dah Mya
April 27, 2016
Tensions are high after armed Burma Army troops breached the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) by entering the Karen National Defence Organisation...
April 27, 2016
Followers of Sayadaw U Thuzana, were instructed by the Buddhist leader to build a pagoda in a Christian church’s compound in Kun Taw Gyi also known...
Aung San Suu Kyi ,State Counsellor and Foreign Minister of Myanmar meets with diplomats at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, 22 April 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
April 27, 2016
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will discuss peace initiatives with the Union-level Cease-fire Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) today,...
April 27, 2016
Several coastal villages in Mon State are experiencing water shortages due to the recent lack of rain, according to Mon State Rural Development...
April 26, 2016
The Arakan National Party (ANP) urged the Arakan State Government to immediately cooperate with the Union Government to stop the fighting in Arakan...
Rubber Plantation
April 26, 2016
Residents of four villages in Karen National Union (KNU) controlled territory in Thaton Township, Mon State demanded the Max Myanmar Company fully...
April 26, 2016
A total of 314 villagers have taken refuge in Si Taung Village (also known as Taung Maw Village) in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State after Burma...
U Gambira at a court in Maha Aungmye Township on 30 March 2016. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
April 26, 2016
Myanmar authorities should dismiss politically motivated immigration charges against a prominent former activist monk and release him from detention...
Thura Shwe Mann, former parliament speaker arrives to attends the Amyothar Hluttaw (upper house parliament) as an observer during the first day of upper house parliament session in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 03 February 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
April 26, 2016
Former Union parliament speaker and party chairman Thura U Shwe Mann has called for an investigation into the legality of his dismissal from the...