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June 13, 2017
<p>June 11</p> <p>The curfew has been extended in Rakhine State&rsquo;s Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships now eight months...
June 13, 2017
<p>Over two dozen Sittwe farmers have rejected compensation offered for their confiscated farmland, demanding either payment at market value,...
June 13, 2017
<p>Rakhine nationalists staged a protest last week against the government&rsquo;s ongoing citizenship review process and recent allotment...
IDPs seeking refuge in Tanai town have been instructed to move to Nawng Long Kawng Ra Village, where civilians have reported been injured by recent heavy artillery.
June 13, 2017
Thousands of civilians remain trapped after attempting to flee their homes amid clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army around...
June 12, 2017
Relatives of a man killed last month in an alleged hit-and-run are trying to take legal action against the suspect, a Tatmadaw private, but claim...
June 12, 2017
Food prices are reportedly soaring in Maungdaw township, where locals said that ingredients commonly used to break Ramadan fast are being sold at...
June 12, 2017
Myanmar has granted a presidential pardon to 33 Bangladeshi nationals who were jailed on separate occasions for illegally entering the country...
June 12, 2017
After the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) resignation, followed by the Wa National Organization (WNO), the hitherto United Nationalities...
June 12, 2017
Mon State parliamentarians have called for an immediate halt of unlicensed laterite excavating and selling.
The late S S. Khaplang, centre, seen here at his camp in Myanmar. Photo: samir kar purkayastha/PCDN
June 12, 2017
The Burmese Naga rebel leader S S Khaplang has died of illness, his comrades said late on Friday.
June 9, 2017
<p>Marking its 20th anniversary, the Karen Information Center (KIC) News held a media roundtable discussion about the future of media in...
 U Chit Tin, Mon State Hluttaw MP from Ye constituency 2, submitted a proposal on June 7 calling for the government to crackdown on unlicensed quarries. (photo: MNA)
June 9, 2017
<p>Mon State parliamentarians have called for an immediate halt of unlicensed laterite excavating and selling.</p> <p>MPs said that...