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March 1, 2019
Lately, the creation of Yongbang Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Mongla, Shan State has become the much talk about subject locally and internationally...
March 1, 2019
Ma Mon Mon Pan (right) and Ah Kyaw (left), reporters with the Burmese-language Myitkyina Journal newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists has...
March 1, 2019
Myanmar’s military is warning citizens in war-ravaged Rakhine state that members of the rebel Arakan Army (AA) are impersonating government troops in...
March 1, 2019
Two journalists were assaulted by staff of a mining company after they detained them for publishing an unfavourable story about the company's...
February 28, 2019
The event aims to bring together Shan youth from diverse backgrounds. The Tai Youth Network will host a football competition and talks on literature...
The 2nd Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting at the National League for Democracy (NLD) party headquarters in Yangon on 23 February 2019. Photo: Mizzima
February 28, 2019
Legislators from Tanintharyi Region legislative assembly have said that lower house MP Khin Zaw from Kawthaung constituency had reportedly urged the...
February 28, 2019
Union Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe and Gen. To Lam sign the bilateral agreement at the 3rd Ministerial Meeting on Security and Law Enforcement Matters in...
February 28, 2019
The Kachin armed group called findings in Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 “groundless facts.” The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) have rejected...
February 27, 2019
Employees of a Chinese joint venture company assaulted two journalists for publishing an unfavourable story about its activities with a banana tissue...
February 27, 2019
More than 1,000 people participated in a march in the Sagaing Region town of Kalay on Monday supporting calls to amend Burma’s military-drafted 2008...
Photo SSPP / SSA: February 25, 2019 The government’s military delegation meets Shan State / Shan State Army at Naypyidaw regional command office
February 27, 2019
The Shan armed group participates in informal peace talks with the Burma Army’s negotiation team in Naypyidaw. Representatives of the Burma Army and...
February 27, 2019
The father of a Myanmar high school student hospitalized in restive Rakhine state’s Kyauktaw township days after being detained for three hours by...