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December 18, 2025
UN General Assembly keeps Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun as Myanmar...
December 18, 2025
Irregular bank cash withdrawals disrupt rubber trading opera...
December 18, 2025
Myanmar, China, Thailand hold talk in Myawaddy to crack down...
Network Media Group
January 21, 2020
NCA-Signatory EAOs to Invite Non-Signatory EAOs to Peace Pro...
Leaders from ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) signatory to Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have announced that they will invite non-...
Narinjara
January 21, 2020
9 people wounded in Arakan landmine explosions
At least nine people including three children were injured in mine explosions that took place in two separate locations of Arakan State in western...
Narinjara
January 21, 2020
Villager shot dead, one detained in Rakhine
A middle-aged individual from Burma proper was shot dead by the security forces in the morning hours of 19 January. The victim is identified as Htay...
Independent Mon News Agency
Kratom plantation owner, Nai Sone Thein, was arrested, on January 10 (photo: Dra Gon)
January 21, 2020
NMSP seizes over 300 kratom plants and make an arrest
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) forces destroyed over 300 kratom plants seized at Ngat Pyaw Taw and Sate Kalay villages in Kyarinseikkyi Township,...
Development Media Group
Photo - Arakan Army
January 21, 2020
AA says it will release two Tatmadaw soldiers soon
Arakan Army spokesperson Khaing Thukha told DMG that his group is arranging to soon release two Tatmadaw soldiers in its custody as a show of the...
Independent Mon News Agency
January 20, 2020
More than 1.7 million voters in Mon State -not counting mili...
Even though list of military personnel eligible to vote has not yet been compiled for the upcoming 2020 election, already there are more than 1.7...
Mizzima
A man holds new edition of 1,000 Myanmar Kyats banknotes featuring portrait of late General Aung San outside the Myanmar Economic Bank in Yangon, Myanmar, 07 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
January 20, 2020
US dollar slides against the Kyat
The US dollar has been sliding against the Kyat in the local currency market, with the exchange rate touching a low of K1,480-1,484 per dollar on 15...
Mizzima
Myanmar President Win Myint (R) greets Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) at the presidential house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 17 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
January 20, 2020
Myanmar government issues statement on the occasion of Chine...
The Myanmar government released a statement 18 January at the end of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit to Myanmar in...
Mizzima
(File) Military truck loaded soldier passes along a deserted road at self-administered Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, 17 February 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 20, 2020
Myanmar army attacks Kokang base as Chinese President arrive...
On the day that Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Myanmar, the Myanmar military launched an attack on an ethnic Kokang army base on the Myanmar...
Mizzima
Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw in Kachin State.
January 20, 2020
Church and displaced Kachin villagers voice concern over res...
Myanmar Church officials and displaced Kachin villagers have reportedly conveyed unease over the possibility that the China-backed Myitsone dam...
Mizzima
Photo: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
January 20, 2020
Chinese President denies supplying arms to ethnic armed grou...
In a meeting with Myanmar Defence Services Commander in Chief, Chinese President Xi Jinping denied his country was supplying arms to ethnic armed...
Mizzima
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) attends the meeting with Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (not in picture) during their meeting at president house in Naypyitaw Myanmar, 17 January 2020. Photo: President's Office/EPA
January 20, 2020
China inks deal with Myanmar on 33 MoUs including Kyaukphyu...
During his visit to Myanmar, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed 33 Memorandum of Understanding agreements, protocols and exchanges including the...