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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
Shan Herald Agency for News
August 14, 2020
Matriculation Exam Rates Decline in Shan State
SENG PHOO - The Shan State Education Department announced that fewer students have passed their matriculation exams for the 2019 to 2020 academic...
Network Media Group
August 14, 2020
Civic Organizations Unhappy Investigation Into Hpakant Lands...
Civic organizations are dissatisfied that an investigation into the tragic landslide on July 2 in Burma’s Hpakant area that killed over 180 miners...
Network Media Group
August 14, 2020
Three Ethnic Parties Contesting Election in Mon State
Three parties, each representing a different ethnic group, will contest the 2020 general election in Mon State. The Mon Unity Party (MUP) is fielding...
Development Media Group
August 13, 2020
Woman wounded by artillery shell shrapnel in Kyauktaw Twsp
A woman from Khapaw village in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township was wounded by an artillery shell believed to have been fired by the military on...
Development Media Group
August 13, 2020
Sittwe IDP students in need of healthcare as illnesses take...
Outbreaks of influenza, diarrhoea and other illnesses have been reported at some camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State as the...
Development Media Group
August 13, 2020
Six candidates to run for Arakanese ethnic affairs minister...
Khin Tharaphy Oo — Six candidates have registered to run for Yangon Region’s Arakanese ethnic affairs minister post in the 2020 general election,...
Development Media Group
August 13, 2020
Mrauk-U Twsp man dies in military custody
Aung Htein — A resident of Pazun Phay village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township has died in military custody, according to family members of the man...
Narinjara
August 13, 2020
Ten villages abandoned after shelling in northern Rathedaung
Residents in 10 villages have reportedly been forced to flee their villages due to a military offensive in the northern part of Rathedaung Township...
Narinjara
August 13, 2020
Body of man who died in Tatmadaw Battalion 377 detention tra...
Tun Khaing — The body of a man who reportedly died while being detained by Mrauk-Oo based Battalion 377 was handed over to police at Mrauk-Oo Police...
Shan Herald Agency for News
August 13, 2020
Govt Announces Plan to Seize and Redistribute 1,000 Acres in...
Sai YordKham — The Kesi Township land management department has announced that they will seize more than 1,000 acres of land and allocate it for use...
Network Media Group
August 12, 2020
More than 13,000 People File Requests to Be Added to Mon Sta...
More than 13,000 people have applied to have their names added to the voter list in Mon State, the state’s election commission has announced. More...
Network Media Group
August 12, 2020
Hpakant Flooding Linked to Mining Practices, Locals Say
With at least five wards in Kachin State’s jade-rich Hpakant area flooded after heavy rains, locals say that the impact has been made worse by...