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July 26, 2020
Despite pledging to prioritize female candidates to contest the 2020 general election, there are fewer women included on the Mon United Party (MUP)...
July 26, 2020
Parents of two students who were detained by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) following a brawl near a karaoke establishment in Burma’s Kachin...
July 26, 2020
Kachin villagers displaced by war returned to clean their church in Ga Ra Yang village in Waingmaw township, Kachin State. Photo: Gumjanaw Nhkum...
July 26, 2020
Hundreds of homes were inundated after flooding overtook a village in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley earlier this week. Heavy rainfall caused the...
July 26, 2020
NANG SENG NOM - Villagers were forced to flee fighting between Burma Army and Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in northern...
July 26, 2020
For the 2020 general election in Kachin State, there are almost a quarter of a million more voters than there was in 2015. There are about 1,090,000...
July 26, 2020
Fighting between the Burma Army and Arakan Army (AA) broke out in Rakhine State’s Minbya Township for three consecutive days. Local sources said the...
July 24, 2020
All of the high schools in conflict-affected southern Chin State accepting enrollment for the 2021-2022 academic years were prevented from opening...
July 24, 2020
NAI BANYA MON / FEDERAL AFFAIRS AND POLICY CENTER Myanmar is among the many governments globally that are being forced to confront the economic...
July 24, 2020
The Burma Army’s continued prosecution of Karenni farmers, now at the state court, may prove to be an obstacle in peace talks with ethnic armed...
July 24, 2020
Due to the low rainfall in the Central Kayan region, Phekone Township, Southern Shan State, farmers could not access adequate water and they are...
July 23, 2020
The Three Brotherhoods Alliance, a coalition of ethnic armed organizations, wants to join the government's Union Peace Conference - 21st Century...