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February 5, 2019
Padoh Saw Thamein Tun told NMG that his organization would restart formal talks with Burma’s government ‘soon.’ A senior Karen National Union (KNU)...
February 5, 2019
The project will have a greater weight capacity than the existing bridge, and is being funded by Naypyidaw. State Counsellor Daw Aung Suu Kyi will...
February 5, 2019
The Myanmar Army launched an attack on an abandoned camp of the banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) in Northern Myanmar at...
Land Law Awareness Training Held in Kachin IDP Camp in Waingmaw township on Feb. 2, 2019
February 5, 2019
An awareness training on Burma’s land laws kicked off in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Maina village in Kachin State’s Waingmaw...
Representatives seen at Mon parties unification meeting in Three Pagodas Pass Town (Photo: MNA)
February 5, 2019
Following the agreement on the party merger between the two major Mon ethnic political parties, there are only three township-levels of the parties...
February 4, 2019
Col Soe Kyaw Htet, deputy commander of Burma Army's Light Infantry Division (LID) 101, attended a ceremony of IDP return home in Nam San Yang on Jan...
A demonstrator shouts from inside a prison van after being detained by Myanmar police during an anti-war protest in Yangon on May 12, 2018. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
February 4, 2019
Myanmar’s first democratically elected civilian government in decades has prosecuted large numbers of peaceful critics in violation of basic human...
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi
February 4, 2019
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that if one wants to enter the legislative branch or wants to be a member of parliament, then one must...
February 4, 2019
‘If ethnic people have equal rights, the Union won’t face disintegration. If they don’t have equal rights, the Union will disintegrate. It’s very...
February 1, 2019
‘We have always tried to opposed the Myitsone dam project,’ a civil society leader says in response to a Chinese statement suggesting local...
February 1, 2019
Saw Joseph, a medic with the frontline humanitarian organization Free Burma Rangers is the winner of the 2018 Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award. In a...
Man Shot and Killed in TachileikPhoto by – Sai Kham Boo
February 1, 2019
The man was killed by gunmen on a motorbike in the middle of the afternoon. A 50-year-old man was shot in the head and killed in eastern Shan State’s...