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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...
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ICRC President Peter Maurer meets with H.E. Kyaw Tint Swe, Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor. Important discussion on humanitarian challenges in Rakhine. Photo: Peter Maurer/Twitter
September 25, 2019
Myanmar, Bangladesh, and China hold informal meeting over re...
Representatives from Myanmar, Bangladesh, and China called this week for enhanced cooperation in repatriating Rohingya refugees now living in camps...
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September 25, 2019
Karenni youths stage protest in prison
At their 13th court appearance on September 24, six Karenni youths who were in judicial custody and charged with section 10 under the Protection of...
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The fountain on the North Lawn of the White House is seen dyed green in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
September 25, 2019
U.S. passes legislation to hold senior Myanmar military lead...
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the BURMA Act, legislation which would advance efforts to hold senior Myanmar military leaders...
Khonumthung News
September 25, 2019
Chin State Adds More than 60,000 Eligible Voters
The number of people in Chin State eligible to vote in next year’s general election has increased by more than 60,000 compared to the last time Burma...
Network Media Group
September 24, 2019
Mon Minister Warns of Landslide Risk in Poung Township
Six weeks after a deadly landslide claimed at least 70 lives in Mon State’s Poung Township last month, the state’s government is warning that another...
Independent Mon News Agency
September 24, 2019
6 members of DKBA-breakaway group released from NMSP custody
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) released six members of a breakaway group of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) that they had detained, near...
Narinjara
September 24, 2019
Retired army officer, police sergeant murdered in Arakan
A retired army officer and a police sergeant were killed in separate incidents on 22 September in two prominent towns of Arakan in western Myanmar. U...
Narinjara
September 24, 2019
Monk, administrator and villager go missing after arrest
A respected monk along with an administrator and a villager have gone missing since they were arrested by Myanmar Army personnel on 20 September,...
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Myanmar murder defendants Zaw Lin (L) and Wai Phyo (R) are escorted by Thai police officers after they were sentenced to death at a provincial court in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, 29 August 2019. Photo: EPA
September 24, 2019
Koh Tao death sentence could be stayed
Rastada Manoo Rastada from Thai Bar Council and member of Thai Human Rights Commission told media that if the Myanmar government sent a request...
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The run down Jama mosque, a center of Islamic worship in Sittwe built 1859 is seen with overgrowth of vegetation after it was permanently closed in 2012 following deadly clashes with Muslims and Buddhists. Photo: AFP
September 24, 2019
Temporary committee formed to open mosques
Muslim leaders from all states and regions of Myanmar are forming a temporary committee to press the civilian-led government to reopen shuttered...
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Taaung National Liberation Army (TNLA), a Palaung ethnic armed group, standing guard outside a village in Mantong township, in Myanmar's northern Shan state. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
September 23, 2019
Northern Alliance declares they are ready for a ceasefire if...
Three northern alliance organizations (TNLA, AA and MNDAA) announced on September 20 that they were ready for a ceasefire if the Tatmadaw is willing...
Shan Herald Agency for News
facebook.com/nrpc.myanmar: NRPC holds peace dialogue with ethnic armed groups in Kengtung 17 Sep, 2019
September 23, 2019
BILATERAL CEASEFIRE TALKS: Aftermath of the second Kengtung...
On September 17, the Northern Alliance – Burma (NA-B) and the National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC), which included the military or...