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Rohingya children play during rain at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp near Sittwe of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 22 March 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
May 10, 2016
U.S. President Barack Obama should renew sanctions authority on Myanmar for at least another year due to ongoing egregious human rights violations...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi chairs the coordination meeting on the formation of the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC). Photo: MNA
May 10, 2016
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed the need to focus on the participation of all stakeholders in the country’s national reconciliation...
May 10, 2016
In an effort to create more understanding on the proposed hydro-power dam on Baw Ka Hta River in Kyaukyi Township, the Karen National Union held a...
May 10, 2016
125 people, comprised of 100 men and 25 women, have died in vehicle accidents from January to April this year throughout Mon State’s 10 township,...
May 9, 2016
Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has urged the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/...
May 9, 2016
The following is a statement of the 4th Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum held in Loikaw, Kayah State on 9 May 2016.
May 9, 2016
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army/Palaung State Liberation Front (TNLA/PSLF) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA)...
May 9, 2016
The leadership of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and the Karen National Union (KNU) met in the northern Thai city...
May 9, 2016
Prominent human rights advocacy organization, Human Rights Watch calls for new civilian government to push for human rights reforms.
May 9, 2016
The Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) held the latest in a series of debates earlier this week in the northern Shan State town of Lashio. The well...
May 6, 2016
The Burma Army has seized two logging camps that were located in territory under the control of the KIA at the Chinese border in the east of the...
May 6, 2016
Fighting broke out between the Kachin Independence Army's (KIA) Battalion 17 and the Burma Army in northern Shan State last week.