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December 18, 2025
UN General Assembly keeps Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun as Myanmar...
December 18, 2025
Irregular bank cash withdrawals disrupt rubber trading opera...
December 18, 2025
Myanmar, China, Thailand hold talk in Myawaddy to crack down...
Narinjara
September 25, 2019
Car workshop owner arrested after Rathdaung mine-explosion
A rural car workshop owner in Ah Ngu Maw village under Rathidaung township of Arakan was arrested by the security forces following a mine-explosion...
Kachin News Group
September 25, 2019
Kachin Peace Activist Seng Nu Pan Released from Myanmar Pris...
Kachin peace activist Seng Nu Pan was released from Myitkyina prison on the morning of September 16th after finishing her 15-day prison term. She was...
Development Media Group
September 25, 2019
Murder suspect of Military Security Affairs corporal dischar...
The Sittwe district court on Monday discharged Ko Ye Zaw, alias Ye Kyaw Thu, who has been facing trial over the murder of a corporal of the Military...
Development Media Group
September 25, 2019
Sixteen schools closed in Arakan State due to outbreak of ho...
As many as sixteen schools have been closed due to the fighting between the Tatmadaw and the AA, according to the Arakan State education office...
Development Media Group
September 25, 2019
A local activist is put on trial
Ko Than Hla, alias Ko Min Bar Chay, who presented a performance during military detention as a campaign to end fighting between the Tatmadaw and the...
Mizzima
Residential and commercial buildings by the river banks as boats sail across the Yangon River. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
September 25, 2019
Myanmar’s GDP to grow by 6.4% in 2018-19 - ICAEW
Myanmar's economy is forecast to expand to 6.4% in 2018-19, before picking up to 6.8% in 2019-20, as the market opens up to foreign investment,...
Mizzima
ICRC President Peter Maurer meets with H.E. Kyaw Tint Swe, Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor. Important discussion on humanitarian challenges in Rakhine. Photo: Peter Maurer/Twitter
September 25, 2019
Myanmar, Bangladesh, and China hold informal meeting over re...
Representatives from Myanmar, Bangladesh, and China called this week for enhanced cooperation in repatriating Rohingya refugees now living in camps...
Mizzima
September 25, 2019
Karenni youths stage protest in prison
At their 13th court appearance on September 24, six Karenni youths who were in judicial custody and charged with section 10 under the Protection of...
Mizzima
The fountain on the North Lawn of the White House is seen dyed green in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
September 25, 2019
U.S. passes legislation to hold senior Myanmar military lead...
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the BURMA Act, legislation which would advance efforts to hold senior Myanmar military leaders...
Khonumthung News
September 25, 2019
Chin State Adds More than 60,000 Eligible Voters
The number of people in Chin State eligible to vote in next year’s general election has increased by more than 60,000 compared to the last time Burma...
Network Media Group
September 24, 2019
Mon Minister Warns of Landslide Risk in Poung Township
Six weeks after a deadly landslide claimed at least 70 lives in Mon State’s Poung Township last month, the state’s government is warning that another...
Independent Mon News Agency
September 24, 2019
6 members of DKBA-breakaway group released from NMSP custody
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) released six members of a breakaway group of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) that they had detained, near...