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Representatives seen at Mon parties unification meeting in Three Pagodas Pass Town (Photo: MNA)
February 5, 2019
Following the agreement on the party merger between the two major Mon ethnic political parties, there are only three township-levels of the parties...
February 4, 2019
Col Soe Kyaw Htet, deputy commander of Burma Army's Light Infantry Division (LID) 101, attended a ceremony of IDP return home in Nam San Yang on Jan...
A demonstrator shouts from inside a prison van after being detained by Myanmar police during an anti-war protest in Yangon on May 12, 2018. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
February 4, 2019
Myanmar’s first democratically elected civilian government in decades has prosecuted large numbers of peaceful critics in violation of basic human...
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi
February 4, 2019
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that if one wants to enter the legislative branch or wants to be a member of parliament, then one must...
February 4, 2019
‘If ethnic people have equal rights, the Union won’t face disintegration. If they don’t have equal rights, the Union will disintegrate. It’s very...
February 1, 2019
‘We have always tried to opposed the Myitsone dam project,’ a civil society leader says in response to a Chinese statement suggesting local...
February 1, 2019
Saw Joseph, a medic with the frontline humanitarian organization Free Burma Rangers is the winner of the 2018 Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award. In a...
Man Shot and Killed in TachileikPhoto by – Sai Kham Boo
February 1, 2019
The man was killed by gunmen on a motorbike in the middle of the afternoon. A 50-year-old man was shot in the head and killed in eastern Shan State’s...
Photo by Muse Civilian
February 1, 2019
The number of drug users appears to be increasing, particularly among youth in the border community. Five people die every month of drug-related...
KNU General Secretary Pado Saw Tado Muh
February 1, 2019
The Karen National Army (KNU) General Secretary Pado Saw Tado Muh responded to the Myanmar Army’s recent allegations of the KNU’s involvement in...
NMSP,along with Lahu Democratic Union, presented at NCA signing ceremony, on 13 February, 2018 (Photo: Eleven Media Group)
February 1, 2019
It has been almost one year since the New Mon State Party (NMSP) signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). The NMSP signed the NCA in February...
February 1, 2019
Two Mon officials are protesting the arrest of two people found in possession of 1,700 Thai Baht ($1.20 USD).Mon State Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Dr...