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August 1, 2017
Peace negotiators for the government and representatives from an alliance of ethnic armed groups are expected to meet for more informal talks on...
August 1, 2017
Karen activists and aid workers are trying to drum up last-minute support for a shelter of internally displaced persons, before it runs out of...
Mon State Hluttaw and State Health officials discuss the H1N1 outbreak (photo: Naiaung Naing/Facebook)
August 1, 2017
<p>The H1N1 virus, which has been causing infections throughout Myanmar (Burma) for the past several weeks, has not yet been detected in Mon...
Ye township officials held a H1N1 awareness-raising talk on July 31. (Photo: MNA)
August 1, 2017
<p>As a deadly swine flu outbreak continues to spread in Myanmar, Mon State residents are urging the government to appoint a doctor to at...
(L-R first row) Thu Wai, Chairman Democratic Party, Lt-general Tin Maung Win, Tin Myo Win Chairman of Peace Commission, KNU vice chairman Saw kawl Htoo win and Lower house parliament member Htun Htun Hain sign during the Union Accord signing during the closing ceremony of the second session of the 'Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong' in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 29 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
August 1, 2017
The second session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference ended with the revival of the word ‘secession’ a word that people have long been...
July 31, 2017
<p>A search party has been deployed to locate Ko Maung Than Htay, a missing resident of Chut Pyin Village.</p> <p>A search party...
July 31, 2017
<p>General Saw Ka Sel Doh, a Karen resistance fighter who joined the Karen Nation Union&rsquo;s armed wing in the first months of its...
July 31, 2017
<p>Schools have been closed and nearly 900 people have been evacuated from a town in southern Kayin (Karen) State due to severe flooding,...
Journalists Aye Nai (L) and Lawi Weng (C) and Pyae Phone Aung (front R) leave the courthouse after appearing for a hearing in Hsipaw in Shan State on July 28, 2017. Photo: AFP
July 31, 2017
Three journalists and three other accused who are charged with cases under section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act were produced before the...
July 31, 2017
A prominent Myanmar journalist was detained as he tried to leave the country after an ultra-nationalist group filed a suit against him, a colleague...
July 31, 2017
Two patients admitted to Yangon General Hospital on 15 July, and on 28 July respectively and another patient transferred to North Okkalapa Hospital...
Tatmadaw Information Committee at meeting. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
July 31, 2017
<p>Maj. Gen. Aunt Ye Win from the Tatmadaw (Defence Services) True News Information Committee urged media to control and refrain from using...