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Myanmar-Bangladesh Border. Photo: Narinjara
April 22, 2016
Bangladesh’s border guard this month deported at least 340 Muslim Myanmar nationals – more commonly known as Rohingyas – without any resistance from...
April 22, 2016
A trial run of the Min Lwin Mountain cement factory project in the Pein Hne Taw Village Group in Thaton Township, Mon State has harmed the natural...
General Saw Mo Shay the new DKBA Commander-in-Chief
April 21, 2016
General Saw Mo Shay has been officially appointed as the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) Commander-in-Chief following the death of the...
April 21, 2016
An official delegation from the Chin State Government visited Thantlang and Falam townships and met up with local people to find out about their...
Workers in an industrial zone in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
Today, U Thein Swe, Union Minister of Labour, Immigration and Population of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar welcomed Mr. Peter Lysholt Hansen,...
Asia World port at Strand road in Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a 40 million U.S. dollar long-term loan to boost development of Myanmar Industrial Port(MIP...
Photo: Mizzima
April 21, 2016
Following an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farming zone in upper Myanmar, the Ministry of Health has urged farmers nationwide yesterday to carry...
Photo: Kyaw Min (Sittwe)/Mizzima
April 21, 2016
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ms Janet Jackson has issued the following statement regarding the boat capsizing on 19 April resulting...
April 21, 2016
The ongoing conflicts between the Myanmar government forces and Arakan Army rebels in different parts of Rakhine State resulted in the killing of few...
April 21, 2016
Chin State Chief Minister Pu Lian Luai said that one of the new Chin State Government's first priorities will be constructing the Chikha to Paletwa...
Left to right: AP’s Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza receive the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting from USC Annenberg in Los Angeles on Friday, April 15, 2016.
April 20, 2016
Esther Htusan, a Myanmar journalist from Kachin State, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism alongside three of her colleagues...
Political activist Naw Ohn Hla (C) is reunited with her friends after her release from Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, 17 April 2016. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
April 20, 2016
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warmly welcomed the release Sunday of a second wave of 83 prisoners on Myanmar's New Year, by Presidential...