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February 27, 2017
Trucks delivering food assistance to the displaced people at the temporary camps in Myaing Gyi Ngu are now a rare sight. Camp warehouses are almost...
Seized trucks with illegal logs
February 27, 2017
Seven 12-wheeler trucks transporting illegal logs from Yangon were seized in Mon State on Saturday, according to Mawlamyine/Thaton District Forestry...
Home Affairs Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe speaks during a press conference in Yangon on 25 February 2017. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
February 27, 2017
The Home Affairs Ministry today held a press conference in Yangon about the Myanmar Police Force’s investigation into the assassination of lawyer Ko...
February 27, 2017
Home Affairs Minister Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe said it is important to catch former Lieutenant Colonel Aung Win Khine, who he claimed was involved...
February 27, 2017
Kayin State villagers are lobbying local authorities not to renew the license of a stone quarry they claim has had deleterious affects on the local...
February 27, 2017
A local militia is terrorizing and extorting the public, trying to extract millions of kyat from villagers in Tang Yan township, northern Shan State...
February 27, 2017
The Karen Refugee Committee held a youth forum this week, brining together dozens of participants from seven refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar...
February 24, 2017
Rakhine State MPs are debating whether or not to restart the suspended Mrauk-U airport project, with one parliamentarian lobbying for Union funds to...
February 24, 2017
With the government’s gender quota in peace process events continuing to fall far short, the Karen Women Organization has announced plans to help...
Myanmar ethnic armed group leaders during a meeting at the headquarters of United Wa State Army (UWSA) in Panghsang 01 May 2015. Photo: EPA
February 24, 2017
The 3rd plenary meeting of non-ceasefire ethnic armed groups who have not yet signed Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) released a statement which...
Photo: Min Myo Nwe
February 24, 2017
Rakhine State Legislative Assembly legislator Aung Win from Myaybon constituency (2) said that he would raise a motion at the Rakhine State assembly...
February 24, 2017
Thailand will start issuing an identification document known as a Certificate of Identity to Myanmar migrant workers on March 3. The CI documents are...