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June 25, 2017
<p>Residents of Muse Township in Shan State have objected to Myoma People&rsquo;s Militia building a tollbooth at their local pier.</p...
June 25, 2017
Residents of Muse Township in Shan State have objected to Myoma People’s Militia building a tollbooth at their local pier.
Holding discussion over the planned protest. Photo: Protection for Journalists Committee -Myanmar
June 25, 2017
The protest and signature collection event that journalists planned to hold in front of the Yangon Division Military Headquarters to call for the...
June 25, 2017
The Voice daily newspaper chief editor U Kyaw Min Swe, who is being prosecuted under the Telecommunications Law section 66(d), has had a bail request...
Mon State cabinet member U Wunna Kyaw (photo: MNA)
June 23, 2017
<p>Mon State government has announced it will change the location of a Mawlamyine Township affordable housing project due to problems with road...
Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
June 23, 2017
Suspected militant training camps were discovered in Mayu Mountain Range in Buthidaung-Maungdaw area in Rakhine State, the Information Committee of...
Rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect government ammunitions and soldiers' helmets after two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: AFP
June 23, 2017
A coalition of political parties in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state said on Wednesday that the national army’s offensives in Tanaing township and the...
June 23, 2017
U Zaw Htay, Director General of Myanmar President’s office, said that there is no visa ban on Harn Yanghwe who is the youngest son of Sao Shwe Thaik,...
June 23, 2017
Questions remain over how and when the $400 million Mawlamyine Cement Limited (MCL) cement factory project in Mon State will contribute to an ongoing...
June 23, 2017
The Karen Women’s Empowerment Group (KWEG) went on its first excursion to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw in Naypyidaw on June 20.
June 21, 2017
<p>The Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) used World Refugee Day on June 20 to call for more action on the return of refugees and internally...
June 21, 2017
<p>A clash broke out between Tatmadaw troops and an unknown armed group in southern Maungdaw Township, Rakhine (Arakan) State on June 20,...