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June 28, 2020
Kachin people living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State, near the border with China, are concerned about flooding after...
June 28, 2020
Civilians displaced by the conflict between the Burma Army and Arakan Army (AA) have run out of food and are finding it difficult to survive in Burma...
June 28, 2020
Schools in Puta-O town, located in remote northern Kachin State, have adopted preventative measures they hope will help reduce outbreaks of the COVID...
June 28, 2020
Four people were killed and four others were injured in incidents of artillery shelling within 48 hours inside three townships of Rakhine State...
June 28, 2020
Ein Soe Pru — At least three detainees fled from the Rathedaung police station on Saturday morning breaking the roof of the lockup. Local sources in...
June 28, 2020
Hnin Nwe — At least two homes in Kyein Thar village, in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township, were set ablaze at about noon on June 26, according to...
June 28, 2020
Khin Tharaphy Oo — Schools are being built on a self-reliant basis at some Arakan State camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) to help children...
June 28, 2020
Rakhine Ethnic Congress (REC) demanded the Tatmadaw (Defence Services) withdraw their order given to local people to move from Kyauktan village and...
June 28, 2020
Nearly half the schools in war-torn Paletwa Township, in southern Chin State, won’t be able to open when classes start up again after a lockdown is...
June 28, 2020
Two jade miners were killed and six injured during a landslide in Hpakant Township in Kachin State. Zau Seng Awng, who lives in Seng Tawng village,...
June 28, 2020
The Burma Army destroyed a Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) medical checkpoint that was part of the ethnic armed...
June 28, 2020
Ko Phoe Thar, a member of satirical poetry troupe Peacock Generation, was released from Insein Prison on June 26, after serving his prison sentence...