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May 25, 2018
Eight suspects who have been arrested in connection with Mrauk U riot attended their tenth court hearing on May 24 and two persecution witnesses were...
May 25, 2018
The Karen Youth Organization (KYO)’s chair Saw Ler Ner has urged more cooperation between ethnic youths in the situation where Myanmar’s political...
May 25, 2018
Tanai MPs have requested the President on May 22 to have the government take immediately action on opening an official internally displaced person (...
Kale Guak Island, Ye Township, Mon State (Photo: Google Map)
May 25, 2018
A Myanmar army officer has been charged with killing an ethnic Mon villager during an investigation into a domestic dispute in Myanmar’s Mon State,...
A no trespassing sign has been set up to carry out the pilot project for Japanese occupation war museum (Photo – Facebook)
May 25, 2018
Local residents have voiced their concerns after access to Mt. Mein Balar has been blocked off to carry out a pilot project to turn former Japanese...
May 24, 2018
A local resident of Kalagoke Island in Ye Township, Mon State has been killed after he was taken away for questioning about his national registration...
May 24, 2018
Rakhine traditional drums are making a comeback in the Rakhine State as over 100 drums have been sold within this year compared to only ten drums...
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives H.E. Mr. Sun Guoxiang, Special Envoy of Asian Affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in February, 2018. Photo: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing/Facebook
May 24, 2018
China’s special envoy on Asian affairs met with Myanmar’s military Coammander-in-Chief on Tuesday in the aftermath of clashes along the border...
May 23, 2018
Farmers in the Kayah State want the Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (MADB) to push back the deadline for paying back the agricultural loan...
May 23, 2018
Thai-Myanmar border-based health organizations, local health experts and health experts from overseas, and leaders of ethnic health organizations...
May 23, 2018
Four soldiers from the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) and two civilians have been charged by military...
Residents that have been shot in Kone Thar Village
May 23, 2018
Two residents from Kone Thar Village have been shot in Hsipaw Township in northern Shan State at 1 am on May 20 and they have been taken to the...