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December 17, 2025
Telecom scams trigger concerns over bank account security
December 17, 2025
12 million in Myanmar at risk of acute hunger in 2026, warns...
December 17, 2025
Chin groups condemn Mrauk-U hospital attack by Myanmar junta...
Kachin News Group
Paul Lu at in front of Myitkyina prison when he was released on Dec. 16, 2019.
December 18, 2019
Remaining Kachin Youth Activist Released From Myitkyina Pris...
Kachin youth activist Paul Lu was released from a prison in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina on Monday morning after serving a three-month...
Network Media Group
December 18, 2019
Northern Alliance, Burmese Govt Delegation Meet in China
Members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed groups held an informal meeting with the Burmese government’s Peace Commission at an undisclosed...
Mizzima
House of Nationalities (upper house) Immigration, domestic/immigrant domestic workers affairs committee chairman Kyaw Htwe.
December 18, 2019
Domestic workers law could be enacted next year
House of Nationalities (upper house) Immigration, domestic/immigrant domestic workers affairs committee chairman Kyaw Htwe said that they were trying...
Mizzima
A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA
December 18, 2019
Bangladesh repatriation could be delayed
The Myanmar government will not push for the much-delayed repatriation of Rohingya refugees living for more than two years in displacement camps in...
Mizzima
December 18, 2019
6.6 kilograms of heroin seized in Shan State
Myanmar police seized 6.6 kilograms of heroin and some stimulants in Shan state, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse...
Khonumthung News
December 18, 2019
Paletwa School Hit By Artillery Shell Re-Opens
A high school that was hit by an artillery shell in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township re-opened on December 12. The shelling, in Myothit ward,...
Development Media Group
December 18, 2019
Be aware of Facebook-twatchers
Facebook is popular because people can read and upload news in real time. And people love to use Facebook because they can read different kinds of...
Development Media Group
December 18, 2019
Body of village administrator found
The body of Kyaukmaw village administrator U Kyaw Aye Maung, who was abducted by the Tatmadaw, was found at the bottom of Mt. Minbu, west of Thalu...
Development Media Group
December 18, 2019
Village administrators now worried about their safety
After village administrator of Phone Thar Wa village tract in Minbya Township was shot and killed by a Tatmadaw column on 11 December night, other...
Development Media Group
December 18, 2019
National League for Democracy demands release of U Ye Thein
The Executive Committee of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Arakan State released a statement on 16 December, demanding to immediately...
Shan Herald Agency for News
Photos by – Kyaukme villagers
December 16, 2019
New IDPs Arrive in Kyaukme in Need of Aid
More internally displaced people (IDPs) arrived in Kyaukme town in northern Shan State on Tuesday night, due to the threat of fighting between the...
Shan Herald Agency for News
December 16, 2019
GAMBIA VERSUS MYANMAR: International Court of Justice Blues
The three-day International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing from December 10 to 12 – in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the...