News

December 1, 2017
Rakhine State Police Chief Police Col. Aung Myat Moe told Mizzima that they seized over 1.2 million methamphetamine tablets on November 29 in...
December 1, 2017
Two of the six antimony plants in Mawmalyine Industrial Zone that were closed by the previous government will be allowed to reopen on a trial basis,...
November 30, 2017
Bago Region’s Karen New Year festival will be held at a football stadium in Minhla township from December 16 to 18 this year, according to an...
November 30, 2017
Shan State's most successful political party following the 2015 election is expanding. The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) launched...
November 30, 2017
Karen lawmakers will commemorate the 2757th Karen New Year Day with a festival in Nay Pyi Taw for the second year in a row. The festival will be held...
Myanmar Press Council Member Dr Zaw Than (extreme left) sharing his view on the concluding day of two day India-Myanmar media interaction programme in the state capital of Manipur in India's north east bordering Myanmar.
November 30, 2017
The journalists’ bodies of India and Myanmar have recommended supporting the implementation of India’s Act East Policy and a visa-free regime...
November 30, 2017
The Chin State Government, Minister of Electricity, Road Transport and City Development Ministry, Issac Khin, confirmed to Mizzima that there were...
November 30, 2017
A Rakhine State politician is seeking to reassert local control over natural resources and in a hluttaw proposal this week suggested politicians be...
November 30, 2017
Beset by increasing numbers of vendors and visitors — and mounting piles of trash — the Kyaikhto Pagoda Board of Trustees is badly in need of some...
November 29, 2017
In the latest turmoil to strike the Arakan National Party (ANP), chair U Aye Maung submitted his resignation this week, prompting the central...
November 29, 2017
The Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) is demanding the Tatmadaw release nine residents of Hopong township, including a 12-year-old boy, all of whom...
The Mon State Chief Minister and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) leaders seen during their informal meeting (Photo – MNA)
November 29, 2017
The Mon State chief minister and the New Mon State Party informally discussed the government’s hallmark peace deal at a meeting earlier this week as...