News

April 7, 2015
A drug addict murdered his wife then killed himself in Kong Maklang village, Tangyan Township, Southern Shan State.
April 7, 2015
The British mining firm Aurasian Minerals Plc (AuM) announced in an update to shareholders in January that this past December it had delivered "three...
April 7, 2015
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) returned 514 Rohingyas including 319 men, 129 women and 68 children to Burma in the month of March...
April 3, 2015
According to pastors from the Sai Toung Baptist Church in Hpakant Township, Kachin State the Burma Army searched their church compound saying that...
April 3, 2015
Despite the government and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) signing the final draft of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on 31 March, the...
April 3, 2015
In a statement released over the weekend the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), an alliance of Burma's armed ethnic groups, expressed the...
Delegates at the NCA Meeting
April 2, 2015
The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) final draft drawn up between the government’s Union-level Peace Work Committee (UPWC) and the ethnic...
Farmers Complain about the Confiscation of Their Land
April 2, 2015
The authorities in Taunggyi City, Shan State have started selling over 300 acres of farmland as plots in a new industrial zone without telling the...
April 1, 2015
The Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) and Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) signed the final draft agreement of the Nationwide...
April 1, 2015
Though the Namkham Township authorities frequently issue orders that forest and mineral products should not be illegally exported the orders have...
Ko Soe Wai Protesting outside the Hilton Hotel in Ngapali
April 1, 2015
Ko Soe Wai, a local resident who protested for the return of confiscated farmlands along Ngapali Beach was imprisoned for three months under Section...
March 31, 2015
Kayah political parties condemned the violent police crackdown on the student protesters at Letpandan Town on 10 March and said it was illegal.