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Photo - Daw Htoot May
January 20, 2020
Refugees who recently arrived at Ann town in Arakan State have had difficulty finding shelter and are in need of government assistance, according to...
January 20, 2020
A fishing boat was hit by a ship in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, killing four people aboard the smaller vessel and leaving one person missing,...
January 20, 2020
Maungdaw District administrator U Soe Aung says authorities have accepted 29 out of 155 Muslims at the Hla Poe Kaung repatriation camp under the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Myanmar. (Photo : MOI)
January 20, 2020
The Arakan Army (AA) released a statement ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Myanmar on January 17-18, saying the ethnic armed group...
January 20, 2020
Khin Thayaphy Oo — ocals have urged KBZ Bank to reopen its branch in the town of Mrauk-U, Arakan State, as its closure 10 months ago has forced them...
January 18, 2020
The Mon Unity Party (MUP) has announced that it will run in Burma’s general elections this year in at least 12 townships in Mon and Karen states and...
January 18, 2020
A 44-year-old woman in Rakhine State’s Ann Township was tortured by soldiers from the Burma Army’s Western Command on January 4, the Chin Human...
Nhtung Hka Naw Sam, chair of NLD ethnic Kachin affairs committee
January 18, 2020
The Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP) has criticized the ruling National League for Democracy’s (NLD) hasty formation of an ethnic affairs committee...
Uru Hka Stream in Hpakant jade mining township, Kachin State, northern Burma.
January 18, 2020
To ensure that flood damage is minimized this year in Hpakant, Kachin State, locals have demanded that the government enforce existing regulations...
Map of Hpawng Seng in Muse township, northern Shan State.
January 18, 2020
On the day of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Burma, the Burmese military launched an attack on an ethnic Kokang army base on the...
Myitsone dam project at Tanghpre, 27 miles north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, northern Burma.
January 18, 2020
More than 50 Kachin organizations have called on Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is currently visiting Burma, to permanently cancel the China-...
January 17, 2020
Tatmadaw soldiers have completely withdrawn from a base that they seized from the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA) near Three Pagodas Pass,...