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September 17, 2015
The head of Maungdaw District Traffic Police, Thaung Htay, has been applying traffic law differently to Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas since...
September 17, 2015
Seventy years after World War II ended, withered and mostly impoverished veterans will gather at the graveside of a British officer who almost no one...
September 17, 2015
Two people were shot and wounded when an unknown armed group in Ye Township shot at and robbed six buses and a truck travelling from Rangoon to Tavoy...
September 17, 2015
The government has claimed that until recently it was unaware of the existence of two of the ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) that it has banned...
September 17, 2015
The Indian government finally banned the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) for five years on Wednesday.
September 16, 2015
Dr. Sasa, founder of the Chin community based organisation (CBO), Health and Hope, met with representatives of the Chin State Government, religious...
Photo by SHAN- The United Wa State Army (UWSA) soldiers march on the 20th anniversary in the Headquater Pangsang in 2009Photo by SHAN
September 16, 2015
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) will not have a chance to demand an autonomous state if they do not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA),...
September 16, 2015
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) vice chair General N’Ban La met with President Thein Sein on 9 September in Naypyitaw in, apparently,...
September 16, 2015
Representatives of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and five other countries will witness the government and ethnic armed...
September 16, 2015
Foreign embassies have issued a joint statement calling for a credible, transparent, and inclusive election.
Buddhist nationalist groups set off on September 14 to begin two weeks of celebrations of the four controversial race and religion bills recently signed into law. The rally of monks and lay people, including representatives of the Ma Ba Tha, began their prayers and celebrations at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
September 16, 2015
The Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, or Ma Ba Tha, held a celebration for the approval ofthe last of four “Race and Religion...
September 16, 2015
Local people from Kunhing Township have written an open letter to the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) asking them to stop all...