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General Zawng Hra
October 31, 2016
On the 56th anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), their Chairman, General Lanyaw Zawng Hra, warned in a speech...
October 28, 2016
Sixty-five refugees from Nu Po Refugee Camp in Tak Province, Thailand arrived at a welcome camp in Myawaddy, Karen State at 2.30pm on 26 October.
The AGGIP Annual Meeting (Photo - AGGIP)
October 28, 2016
The Alliance for Gender Inclusion in the Peace Process (AGIPP) will continue to push for 30 per cent women’s participation in Burma’s peace process,...
October 28, 2016
A villager was shot dead by a Burmese soldier in central Shan State’s Mong Hsu Township on Wednesday morning, according to a member of the Shan...
KIA soldier
October 27, 2016
Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO)’s Information Officer Lt-Col Naw Bu warned that fighting might escalate in Kachin Independence Army (KIA)...
October 27, 2016
The Thanlwin (Chaungzone) Bridge will assist people crossing from Mon State’s capital city, Mawlamyine, to Bilu Kyun Island after it’s finished in...
MCL cement factory compound (photo: MNA)
October 27, 2016
Five foreign employees, who faced deportation from the country after breaking immigration law, were granted pardon by Mon State’s Ministry of...
Photo SHAN- the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy’s chairman Khun Htun Oo speaks at the 28th anniversary ceremony in Yangon.
October 27, 2016
The largest and most successful political party in Shan State, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), celebrated its 28th anniversary on...
KNU and NMSP officials in September (Photo: Internet)
October 27, 2016
Over the course of minutes, troops from the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) exchanged gunfire on Monday afternoon,...
Photo: DVB
October 26, 2016
Around 100 local officials and villagers in Mongyang Township have reportedly fled their homes due to escalating tensions in the eastern Shan State...
The Splinter DKBA's statement on reunification with the KNU
October 25, 2016
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (Splinter DKBA), which splintered from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), will only reunify with the...
Muslims people gather at Thet Kel Pyin Muslim IDPs (Internally displaced person) camp in Rakhine State near capital Sittwe, western Myanmar, 07 September 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
October 25, 2016
Some of the people who fled Maungdaw township after deadly fighting broke out in the volatile northern part of the Rakhine state earlier this month...