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Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi, left, and Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi at a joint press in Nay Pyi Taw on 5 April. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
April 7, 2016
Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi met her Chinese counterpart Tuesday in the first diplomatic foray of her new pro-democracy government,...
Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion. Photo: Canadian Government
April 7, 2016
The Canadian Embassy in Yangon says Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion is due to set foot in Myanmar for a two-day visit to meet with the new government.
April 5, 2016
Manpang People’s Militia coerced leaders and residents of several villages to attend a meeting about coal excavations in Lashio district in northern...
April 5, 2016
Arakan State government cabinet ministers for Chin Affairs and Border Affairs took their oaths for the new government during yesterday’s (April 4)...
April 5, 2016
The Shan State Hluttaw session was halted on 4 April, its ninth day, due to a lack of transparency in a proposal to form eight ministries for the...
April 5, 2016
Mon State’s newly appointed government ministers, the auditor-general and advocate were sworn in before the house speaker Daw Tin Tin Ei yesterday [...
Delegates at last month's meeting in Chiang Mai. Photo: Phanida/Mizzima
April 5, 2016
Ethnic armed group leaders say another possible “summit” meeting of groups that have not signed the Myanmar National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) may be...
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) soldiers. Photo: Mizzima
April 5, 2016
The elusive road to peace remains entrenched in Shan State, as Myanmar’s first democratically elected civilian government took office last week.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures as he answers a question from a reporter during a press conference on the sidelines of the fourth session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China, 08 March 2016. Photo: How Hwee Young/EPA
April 5, 2016
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to Myanmar from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to Chinese media.
April 5, 2016
In an effort to unify both the signatories and non-signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement the leaders of the ethnic armed groups met last...
April 5, 2016
Female Karen leaders are calling on the newly appointed Karen State Chief Minister Nan Khin Htwe Myint to introduce new measures to encourage more...
Myanmar refugee Myat Win, 27, who lost both her legs after stepping on a landmine inside Myanmar, near the Thai border area, walks into the Mae Tao clinic grounds in the Thai - Myanmar border city of Mae Sot, Thailand. Photo: EPA
April 4, 2016
The UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon has called for action around the world to get rid of mines used as weapons of war.