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Peace Commission has planned to meet the representatives of three ethnic armed outfits of Burma namely The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and Arakan Army (AA) at Mongla locality.
August 5, 2016
Lt Gen (Rtd.) Khing Zaw Oo, Secretary of Peace Commission, disclosed it on Monday while talking to the local media personnel after a discussion with...
August 5, 2016
A new youth alliance that was formed during the recent National Ethnic Youth Conference have called on the government to allow young people to...
Khaing Myo Htun. Photo: ERI
August 5, 2016
The Myanmar government should immediately free political activist Khaing Myo Htun and investigate allegations that the army has committed abuses...
August 5, 2016
A new report by a Karen rights group calls for the protection of women facing gender based discrimination, violence, rape and forced labour in...
August 5, 2016
Over 200 local residents have been forced to flee from their homes after new offensives by the Burma Army against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)...
Sittwe beach, Rakhine State. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
August 4, 2016
India plans to set up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Sittwe, Rakhine State, where it has already built a port. The proposed SEZ by India will rival...
Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi seen closely with security guards during 69th Martyrs' Day at her house in Yangon. Photo: Soe Win/Facebook
August 4, 2016
The Myanmar government is arranging more security for State Counsellor and Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi after her name appeared on a...
August 3, 2016
In the spirit of fostering unity among the different groups in Burma, a youth alliance has been formed, gathering members representing 26 different...
PHOTO BY SHRF: Coal mining site in Nam Ma area.
August 3, 2016
The Burmese army and its allies arbitrarily arrest, torture and kill civilians as they bid to secure coal-mining concessions in the Nam Ma area of...
A man mixes marijuana and tobacco leaves from a typical Myanmar cheroot in a house on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
August 3, 2016
After a two-day debate on the elimination of drug abuse and trafficking in the country by lawmakers in the Amyotha Hluttaw, parliament yesterday...
August 3, 2016
A new report by the Karen Human Rights Group has documented the insecurity and mistrust ethnic women have to Burmese authorities following decades of...
Crane hoisting the alms bowl statue (Photo: Facebook)
August 3, 2016
The statue of a large, golden alms bowl, the centerpiece of one of Malwamyine’s roundabouts since 2007, was removed yesterday in front of a small...