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December 29, 2025
Each polling station in Myawaddy has fewer than 1,000 voters
December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
Network Media Group
January 25, 2020
Mon Unity Party to Prioritize the Backing of Women and Youth...
Leaders of the Mon Unity Party (MUP) have said that they will prioritize the selection of women and youth candidates in Burma’s upcoming general...
Network Media Group
January 25, 2020
Kachin Political Party, Women’s Group Call for Women’s Inclu...
The Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP) and Kachin State Women Network (KSWN) released a joint statement demanding that the authorities implement a...
Narinjara
January 25, 2020
13 Rakhine villagers released after 11 months detention
Thirteen Rakhine villagers, including a woman from Paletwa township of southern Chin State were released by Sittwe township court on Friday. Senior...
Narinjara
January 25, 2020
Myanmar apex court rejects Dr Aye Maung’s appeal
The special appeal by Dr Aye Maung and Arakanese author Wai Hin Aung was rejected today by the Supreme Court of Myanmar. Even after the rejection of...
Independent Mon News Agency
Photo - Training of constitution and election-related information (MNA)
January 25, 2020
Training on constitution and election-related information he...
In an effort to educate young people and the public about the upcoming 2020 election and the Myanmar Constitution a variety of groups came together...
Independent Mon News Agency
Photo- The meeting of Democratic Force and Ethnic Political Party (Thanlwin Khat)
January 25, 2020
Social rehabilitation and development can advance through pe...
Social rehabilitation and development sectors can advance if peacebuilding can be achieved, noted ed a senior official of the Mon Unity Party. “There...
Mizzima
Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres attends a press conference on the International Libya Conference in Berlin, Germany, 19 January 2020. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
UN Secretary General welcomes decision of ICJ ‘genocide’ dec...
The UN Secretary General’s office has today issued a statement in response to the Order of the International Court of Justice on the Request for the...
Mizzima
A labourer works on an electric power pole to modify and maintain the high voltage power cables in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
Second phase of National Electrification Project begins
Mandalay Electricity Supply Corporation, Electricity Supply Enterprise, Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) and Hitachi Soe Electric &...
Mizzima
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Tamu near Indo-Myanmar border on January 23. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
January 25, 2020
‘The state will not let any organization which harms public...
Soe Thu Aung — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that the state would not let any organization which harms public safety and security go scot...
Mizzima
(File) Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) arrives for the second day of hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 December 2019. Photo: EPA
January 25, 2020
Government issues statement regarding ICJ ruling
The following is the statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling ‘Myanmar Takes...
Khonumthung News
January 25, 2020
Extension of Academic Year Could Overwhelm Chin State Teache...
An extension to the academic year by one month put forward by the Ministry of Education has been contested by teachers who say it is “overloading”...
Development Media Group
January 25, 2020
Ruling expected for 13 people facing Unlawful Associations A...
The Sittwe District Court will rule on January 24 in a case involving 13 people who have been on trial for more than nine months, facing charges...