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August 14, 2017
Rakhine activists and the state government are still tussling over allegedly unpaid compensation for villagers displaced by an oil pipeline.
August 14, 2017
With the leniency period now over, Thailand has warned that any remaining unregistered migrant laborers may be deported.
Panelists - U Aung Hla Tun, Vice Chairman-1, New Media Council (R), Kavi Chongkittavorn, Executive Director and Chief Editor of Myanmar Times (R), and Mrs Dunja Mijatovic, international expert on media freedom (R-C) - discuss the importance of media in reporting on government developments and the changes on the road to full democracy in Myanmar. Photo. MOI
August 13, 2017
<p>The Myanmar government needs to work with the media to craft an accurate narrative of developments in the country, given local criticism of...
August 13, 2017
<p>Rakhine activists appealed this week to the chief minister to intervene over allegedly unpaid compensation for villagers displaced by an oil...
 A legal awareness workshop (photo: MNA)
August 11, 2017
<p>The Mon Women's Organization (MWO), working in cooperation with Action Aid Myanmar, has just finished a series of workshops on legal...
August 11, 2017
<p>Negotiations over signing the nationwide ceasefire agreement are still at an impasse, with the leader of an ethnic armed alliance claiming...
August 11, 2017
<p>Civilians trapped in northern Shan State&rsquo;s Manton township due to road blockages say Tatmadaw soldiers, who have been terrorizing...
August 11, 2017
The march of democracy is unstoppable in Myanmar, despite obvious challenges, says Myanmar’s information minister Dr Pe Myint.
August 11, 2017
Myanmar Indigenous People Network Central Executive Committee member Naw Ei Ei said at the International Indigenous People Day celebration that they...
August 10, 2017
<p>In his opening speech to members of the government Peace Commission, Khu Oo Reh of the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) said that...
Fayas Ahmed is seen delivering speech at the Rohingya National convention in 2008.
August 10, 2017
Fayas Ahmed, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Kaladan Press Network, passed away on July 30 at the Chittagong Metropolitan Hospital after a heart...
August 10, 2017
More than 200 civilians in northern Shan State’s Namhsan Township fled their homes this week due to ongoing hostilities between Burma’s armed forces...