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December 19, 2025
Anti-coup movement participant teacher and husband killed in...
December 19, 2025
Four men face election law charges over campaign sign vandal...
December 19, 2025
Myanmar junta arrests over 200 people under election protect...
Independent Mon News Agency
Photo- The meeting of Democratic Force and Ethnic Political Party (Thanlwin Khat)
January 25, 2020
Social rehabilitation and development can advance through pe...
Social rehabilitation and development sectors can advance if peacebuilding can be achieved, noted ed a senior official of the Mon Unity Party. “There...
Mizzima
Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres attends a press conference on the International Libya Conference in Berlin, Germany, 19 January 2020. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
UN Secretary General welcomes decision of ICJ ‘genocide’ dec...
The UN Secretary General’s office has today issued a statement in response to the Order of the International Court of Justice on the Request for the...
Mizzima
A labourer works on an electric power pole to modify and maintain the high voltage power cables in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
Second phase of National Electrification Project begins
Mandalay Electricity Supply Corporation, Electricity Supply Enterprise, Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) and Hitachi Soe Electric &...
Mizzima
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Tamu near Indo-Myanmar border on January 23. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
January 25, 2020
‘The state will not let any organization which harms public...
Soe Thu Aung — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that the state would not let any organization which harms public safety and security go scot...
Mizzima
(File) Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) arrives for the second day of hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 December 2019. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
Government issues statement regarding ICJ ruling
The following is the statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling ‘Myanmar Takes...
Khonumthung News
January 25, 2020
Extension of Academic Year Could Overwhelm Chin State Teache...
An extension to the academic year by one month put forward by the Ministry of Education has been contested by teachers who say it is “overloading”...
Development Media Group
January 25, 2020
Ruling expected for 13 people facing Unlawful Associations A...
The Sittwe District Court will rule on January 24 in a case involving 13 people who have been on trial for more than nine months, facing charges...
Development Media Group
January 25, 2020
AA denies Tatmadaw claim that it set vehicle ablaze in Ann T...
The Arakan Army has denied an accusation made by the Tatmadaw that the ethnic armed group this week set fire to a motor vehicle and abducted the...
Kachin News Group
Jade mine collapse in Nam Maw in Hpakant killed one on Jan. 20, 2020.
January 25, 2020
Jade Picker Killed in One of First Hpakant Landslides of 202...
Local authorities confirmed that a 54-year-old man was killed while picking jade during a landslide in Hpakant this week. The incident occurred at...
Development Media Group
(Photo - Myanmar State Counsellor Office)
January 24, 2020
ICOE report sent to C-in-C for further probe into Arakan vio...
The President’s Office has forwarded a final report of the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) to the Office of the Commander-in-Chief so that...
Development Media Group
Photo - Arakan Army
January 24, 2020
Arakan Army releases NLD lawmaker U Hawi Tin
The Arakan Army (AA) has released U Hawi Tin, a National League for Democracy lawmaker in Chin State’s Paletwa Township, after holding the MP in...
Mizzima
The Union Election Commission held a coordination meeting with political parties with the aim to successfully organize the 2020 General Election, at the UEC Office in Nay Pyi Taw. Photo: MNA
January 24, 2020
Ethnic political parties harbour concerns over China’s role
Some of Myanmar’s ethnic political parties on Wednesday expressed concern over potential negative impacts of China’s planned multibillion-dollar mega...