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Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo: Harri Suvisalmi/Flickr
June 6, 2019
Over 40 village administrators in the Kyauktaw township of Myanmar’s Rakhine state resigned their posts on Tuesday to protest the arrests of...
President U Win Myint delivers the opening speech at the event to mark the World Environment Day for 2019 in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Photo: Myanmar President Office
June 6, 2019
The Government of Myanmar yesterday announced its vision for the country’s environmental protection and climate action, launching two new policies...
June 5, 2019
Schools cannot be reopened for the new academic year in Rathedaung Township due to continued fighting between Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army in the...
photo: CCDAC
June 5, 2019
Myanmar authorities seized narcotic drugs worth over 178.8 million kyats (119,240 U.S. dollars) in northernmost Kachin state, Xinhua reported. A...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
June 5, 2019
As the police could not find abbot U Wirathu, who is wanted under section 124(a) of Penal Code (sedition), to bring before the court, Yangon West...
June 5, 2019
Powerful weapons hit village’s evacuation center at monastery which left six villagers and nine others wounded as the entire villagers displaced due...
June 5, 2019
An artillery shell exploded in Nyaung Bin Hla village in Mrauk-U Township on 3 June when a man found it and hit it with his knife, one man was killed...
June 5, 2019
The curfew order in the five townships of northern Arakan State has been extended for the next two months, according to township administrators and...
June 4, 2019
Hundreds of Karen representatives from 56 different groups gathered to strengthen Karen customary land management systems at a seminar held at Lay...
June 4, 2019
The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) is calling on the Arakan Army (AA) to release 52 Chin civilians, including 17 children, who have been held...
(File photo) National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K).
June 4, 2019
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) is firm on not signing the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Myanmar Army (...
June 4, 2019
Four villagers were killed and six injured in fighting between ethnic Arakan Army soldiers and government troops in Myanmar’s Rakhine state beginning...