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July 17, 2015
Burma’s Government is intensifying intimidation and arrest of student activists as a nationwide election nears on November 8, 2015.
July 17, 2015
A board of Mon Buddhist monks will draw up rules and regulations on how to celebrate traditional Mon religious festivals and ceremonies across Mon...
July 16, 2015
Ethnic politicians and parliamentarians anticipate making significant gains in the November 8 election, ucanews.com reported on 15 July.
July 16, 2015
The first India-Myanmar Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) Meeting co-chaired by the External Affairs Minister of India and the Foreign Minister of...
July 16, 2015
Five animist Karen Villages displaced from their traditional lands where their deities lived in Mutraw (Papun) District, Karen State have resumed...
July 16, 2015
The United Wa State Party/Army (UWSP/UWSA) should be one of the signatories of the planned Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), said U Aung Min,...
Soldiers from Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) take guard at Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA)'s Kawthumweke front line camp, Myawaddy, Karen State, Myanmar, 10 May 2012. Photo: Nyein Chang Naing/EPA
July 15, 2015
The Myanmar Army and Kayin Border Guard Force continued to search on Tuesday for remnants of the Klo Htoo Baw Karen Organization (KKO), or Democratic...
New Mon State Party central executive committee member, Nai Aye Mon
July 15, 2015
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has urged Mon people to cast their ballots for one of the two Mon political parties, either the Mon National Party (...
July 14, 2015
According to a statement by the Mon Population Data [Collecting] Project Committee there are over 60,000 Mon people in Tanintharyi Region, but the...
July 14, 2015
The ringleader of a robbery and kidnapping gang, Chan Dein, was seized and shot dead by the Tavoy District No. 2 Battalion of the Mon National...
July 13, 2015
The Maungdaw authorities denied UNHCR officers permission to meet Rohingya elders on 11 July according to Halim who works for a human rights watchdog...
Health Education at school ©Aya.TABATA
July 13, 2015
Dengue fever outbreaks on the Thai Burma border have affected hundreds of students, with many having to be hospitalized.