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December 19, 2025
Anti-coup movement participant teacher and husband killed in...
December 19, 2025
Four men face election law charges over campaign sign vandal...
December 19, 2025
Myanmar junta arrests over 200 people under election protect...
Narinjara
December 23, 2019
Activists to demonstrate in Yangon for restoration of inter...
A group of social activists are planning to demonstrate in Yangon on 24 December to demand the government for restoration of internet services in...
Independent Mon News Agency
NMSP military base in Palaing Japan. (photo: NMSP)
December 23, 2019
NMSP attempts to join JMC-S for the Karen State and Tanintha...
In an effort to resolve the conflict between the Myanmar army (Tatmadaw) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP), the NMSP is continuing its efforts to...
Mizzima
December 23, 2019
BRIDE TRAFFICKING - Sourcing vulnerable women from the Kachi...
Forget the heady and romantic dream that marriage may conjure up. It is impossible not to feel sorry when the heart-breaking stories of young women...
Mizzima
December 23, 2019
Arrests in high-profile Mandalay teenager trafficking case
Police officials says arrests have been made in the case of a teenager trafficked in late November by a relative from a tea shop in Mandalay and...
Mizzima
Government delegation and ten Ethnic Armed Organizations hold a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon. Photo: MNA
December 23, 2019
Peace Process talks to resume in January
The Government delegation and Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement -Signatories (NCA-S) held a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National...
Kachin News Group
December 23, 2019
Gov’t, Northern Alliance Discussed Release of Detainees: Sou...
Representatives of the Burmese government and the four-member Northern Alliance discussed the possibility of releasing detainees held by both sides...
Kachin News Group
A joint press conference of KBC and Nippon at KBC office in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State on Dec. 21, 2019.
December 23, 2019
KHCC Prepares for Return of More than 3,000 Kachin IDPs
The Kachin Humanitarian Concern Committee (KHCC) is preparing to resettle a total of more than 3,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from 10...
Kachin News Group
Dr. Manam Tu Ja of KSPP leader (left) and Bawk Ja of UNFDP leader (right) at office of Kachin Nationals Consultative Assembly in Myitkyina on Dec. 20, 2019.
December 23, 2019
Another Kachin Political Party Merges with KSPP
The Union Nationalities Federal Democracy Party (UNFDP), a political party based in Kachin State, merged with the Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP)...
Development Media Group
Soldiers from the Arakan Army / Photo - AA
December 23, 2019
War-affected area might widen in Arakan State, AA says
Fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army may intensify in Arakan State and the conflict zone could widen, the AA said in a statement...
Development Media Group
December 23, 2019
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi questions militancy as negotiating tact...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi used a recent speech to ask whether it was necessary for non-state armed groups to continue to hold arms and...
Development Media Group
The Tatmadaw said its troops also seized a photo from U Kyaw Aye Maung as evidence, which it said showed him taking part in a military parade in front of Arakan Army leader Maj-Gen Twan Mrat Naing.
December 23, 2019
Slain village administrator wasn’t AA-affiliated, family say...
A village administrator in Arakan State’s Minbya Township, accused by the Tatmadaw of being an Arakan Army (AA) cadre and found dead earlier this...
Mizzima
December 23, 2019
Arakan State farmers face difficult harvest due to fighting
Though the harvest season is upon farmers in Arakan State, a local from Minbya Township says many are struggling to reap their paddy with fighting...