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September 4, 2017
The Kayin (Karen) State government is planning to hold a multiethnic cultural festival next year. On September 2, government officials held a...
September 4, 2017
<p>Two years after the 2014 census was conducted, government officials are just getting around to explaining the point of all those questions...
Workers use heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
September 4, 2017
Efforts are being made to pursue more environmentally friendly practices in the Lonkhin-Hpakant Gems Tract in cooperation with local companies.
Workers use heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
September 4, 2017
Efforts are being made to pursue more environmentally friendly practices in the Lonkhin-Hpakant Gems Tract in cooperation with local companies.
Participants at the forum. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
September 4, 2017
At a forum held in Yangon to celebrate and discuss 70 years of India-Myanmar relations, a key message to come out being the need to substantially...
Smoke rises from Sein Nyin Pya village in Buthidaung township on 30 August 2017. Photo: Ko Wai Hin Aung
September 4, 2017
The following is a statement issued by a collection of INGOs that have been working in Myanmar regarding the violence in Rakhine State:
September 1, 2017
Failing to find a sympathetic ear in the Shan State government office, 150 farmers have taken their land complaints to the state Hluttaw instead.
A local-level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee office in Hpapun township was launched with an opening ceremony on August 30. (Photo: the Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Office)
September 1, 2017
Supporting the nuts and bolts of implementing the peace process, a local-level committee was formed with an office in Hpapun township, Kayin (Karen)...
September 1, 2017
Thailand has asked Myanmar to upgrade a high traffic border checkpoint in Kayin (Karen) State that was closed in July due to flooding. They also...
September 1, 2017
Two reporters surrendered at Aunglan police station, Magway Region and were granted bail.
August 31, 2017
<p>The Karen Unity and Peace Committee (KUPC) convened a summit of Kayin (Karen) State political parties on August 29 to discuss the formation...
August 31, 2017
<p>Two years after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was signed in October 2015, the country&rsquo;s peace process has only become more...