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Procedures after signing the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) (Photo: Peace & NCA)
April 24, 2018
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has been unable to establish the State-level Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC-S) even though it signed the nationwide...
April 24, 2018
Local residents have been feeling very concerned over their security after bombs exploded two days in a row in Muse border town in the northern Shan...
April 24, 2018
Difficulties may rise in settling disputes on health issues between employers and miners working at the mining holes in Mawchi lead mine in the Kayah...
Dr. Than Htut. Photo: Aung Myat Thu/Mizzima
April 21, 2018
Zabuthiri Township police force arrested the Director General of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under Ministry of Health and Sports for allegedly...
Remembering the political prisoners - The late Win Tin. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
April 21, 2018
Activists are calling on people to wear blue shirts today in memory of the death of former political prisoner Win Tin and to remember political...
April 20, 2018
U Lahpai Gum was from In Paw Village of Waingmaw Township and he came to Inset Christian IDP camp in Myitkyina together with his family in June 2011.
April 20, 2018
A local Kachin internally displaced person (IDP), U Lahpai Gum, has been released under the presidential amnesty on April 17 after being wrongfully...
A Kachin refugee family eating near Lung Byeng village in Waimaw township in Kachin state. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
April 19, 2018
A Myanmar NGO has sent a letter to the head of the Kachin state government calling for the rescue of Internally Displace People (IDPs) trapped in a...
Three migrant workers who have been arrested for murder (Photo: TB ZT Facebook)
April 19, 2018
Three migrant workers killed a female rubber plantation owner from Pa Nga Village over a dispute on collecting firewood in Wea Yat Village in...
April 19, 2018
Around 2,000 people from three villages who have been trapped amid the fighting in Tanai Township, Kachin State have been forced to flee from...
April 19, 2018
The Chin University Students Fellowship has demanded the government on April 16 to solve the issue on the incorrect spellings of Chin people’s names...
April 18, 2018
The President’s Office has lifted the conditions set against political prisoners under Section 401 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure after they...