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December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
December 28, 2025
Voters in eastern Shan State cast ballots amid security conc...
September 18, 2020
Nine village-tracts in Paletwa Township expected to be exclu...
The election is unlikely to be held in nine village-tracts in Paletwa Township in Chin State, said U Soe Htet, Chin State Development Affairs...
Network Media Group
September 18, 2020
China Locks Down Border Towns After Burmese Migrants Test Po...
China has imposed lockdowns in the towns of Ruili and Jiegao, on the border with Shan State, after two Burmese migrants recently tested positive for...
Kantarawaddy Times
September 18, 2020
Kayah Candidates Urge to Support only Local Parties
Dway El Khu — Kayah candidates have urged the Kayah ethnic people to surround only the local parties in the 2020 election. Khoon Myint Naing, a...
September 17, 2020
500 polling booths in Arakan State will be monitored
Arakan Election Monitoring Group said it plans to provide special monitoring of 500 polling booths in the election scheduled for November 8, said U...
September 17, 2020
Shan IDPs on Thai-Myanmar border lose their voting rights
Shan refugees from the war in five IDP camps and one refugee camp along the Thai-Myanmar border will all be denied voting rights in the election as...
September 17, 2020
The policy and election pledges of the Arakan League for Dem...
The ALD will implement three major policies—support for a federal system, ethnic equality and self-determination. U Myo Kyaw, Spokesperson of the ALD...
Network Media Group
September 17, 2020
Child Injured as Burmese Navy Allegedly Shells Villages Alon...
A six-year-old boy was injured when an artillery shell hit a village in Rathedaung Township in Rakhine State on Friday. The shell was allegedly fired...
Network Media Group
September 17, 2020
COVID-19 Restrictions Create Difficulties for Election Campa...
Restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have made it difficult to launch election campaigns in Burma, representatives of ethnic political...
Shan Herald Agency for News
September 17, 2020
Shan Armies Describe Being on the Outside of Electoral Proce...
Sai Pawnli — With Burma’s November general election nearing, it remains unclear how or if the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and the Shan...
Shan Herald Agency for News
September 17, 2020
Chinese Border Town on Lockdown After Burmese Migrants Test...
NANG SENG NOM — Chinese authorities have locked down the city of Ruili in Yunnan Province after two Burmese migrants tested positive for COVID-19...
Development Media Group
September 17, 2020
Lawyers decry case against Arakan student trio using natural...
Aung Htein — Lawyers’ organisations in Arakan State have condemned authorities for opening a case under the Natural Disaster Management Law against...
Kachin News Group
September 17, 2020
Tatmadaw Warns KIO/A to Remove Military Camps in Chipwi Town...
The Burma Army wants the Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/A) to eliminate two of its military camps in Kachin State. Col Kyaw Lin Aung,...