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Anti-war protesters in front of the UN HQ in New York
May 5, 2016
Around 100 ethnic people, including Arakan nationalists, staged a protest in front of the United Nations (UN) headquarters on 30 April calling for a...
May 4, 2016
Residents of Saung Lawt village in Bawlakhe Township, Karenni State are worried because their waterholes have been drying up since a logging company...
Displaced Rakhine villagers who fled from a conflict area at a temporary shelter at Yay Soe Chaung village in Buthee Taung township, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, 25 April 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
May 4, 2016
In response to displacement following recent armed clashes, around 500 people who took refuge in Buthidaung and Kyauktaw Townships are receiving...
May 4, 2016
A human rights advocacy organisation has led calls to release three prominent religious tolerance activists. The activists, Zaw Zaw Latt, Pwint Phyu...
May 4, 2016
Reports are emerging of a series of small scale attacks by Burma Army forces against Kachin Independence Army positions throughout Kachin State, and...
May 4, 2016
May Day 2016, workers around the world took to the streets and city parks to rally and march to show their solidarity and support for their workplace...
May 4, 2016
Four soldiers, broken away from All Burma’s Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), gave up their arms to Ye Town based Tatmadaw (Burma Army), on Thursday.
UNFC Chairman General N’Ban La (left) and Vice Chairman Nai Han Thar (right)
May 4, 2016
The Burmese government needs to immediately declare a nationwide ceasefire to implement a 21st Century Panglong Conference within one or two months,...
May 4, 2016
There is two reasoning why the ethnic parties lost in the last nationwide elections.
Arakan Army
May 4, 2016
The Second Upper House approved an urgent motion to end fighting in Rakhine State, the Global New Light of Myanmar reported on 8 May.
May 4, 2016
Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army - South (RCSS/SSA-S) said that ongoing conflict with Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) was...
Umphiem Mai Refugee camp (Photo: Karen News)
May 4, 2016
Refugees responded to a senior Tak Province official speaking about the repatriation of the more than 100,000 refugees from Burma living in camps...