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Nai Hong Sar Speaking at the Closing Ceremony of the Mon Cultural Instrument Training (Photo: IMNA)
May 29, 2015
It is vitally important to maintain Mon cultural heritage, affirmed Nai Hong Sa, vice-chairman of New Mon State Party (NMSP), in his speech during...
May 29, 2015
Chin people who fled their homes in Chin State due to fighting between the Burma Army and the Arakan Army (AA) are being forced to return to their...
May 29, 2015
The victim, forty-eight year-old U San Lwin, was shot by an unknown gunman at around 8 pm on 24 May while he was selling clothes at his shop in Nam...
May 29, 2015
Refugee camp officials on the Thai Burma border are concerned that a funding shortfall may result in further ration cuts.
May 29, 2015
A senior Thai Health Ministry official said that from May 2015, government health insurance packages are available to buy for every registered...
Lt. Gen.Yawd Serk Chairman of the RCSS-SSA
May 28, 2015
The Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) leaders will not attend the upcoming NCCT organised ethnic armed organisations’ (...
May 28, 2015
Twenty Burmese citizens who were among the 208 boatpeople rescued by the Burmese authorities off the coast of Maungdaw Township in Arakan State on 21...
May 27, 2015
SMEC the Australian company carrying out the social and environmental impact assessment report for the Mongton Dam project is bribing local residents...
May 27, 2015
The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) and the 88 Peace and Open Society (88 Generation) group met in Yangon to talk about solving political...
Kyauktaw Township Gate
May 26, 2015
Eight more people have been arrested in Arakan State on suspicion of being involved with the Arakan Army (AA) said the police chief of Kuakytaw...
Delegates from the UN and the Arakan Government in a Meeting
May 26, 2015
Mr. Vijay Nambiar, the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Myanmar met with the Arakan Prime Minister and Arakan ministers to discuss the case...
May 26, 2015
U Myint Aung, a 63-year-old man from Shan State who set himself on fire on 21 May to protest against the army confiscating his land died from his...