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June 19, 2017
With only rice to eat and no work opportunities to be had, families sheltering at the Ei Tu Hta Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Kayin (Karen)...
June 17, 2017
The National Karen School has re-opened under a new name, the Karen Affairs School by the Karen Literature and Cultural Committee. The school is...
June 17, 2017
As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s State Counsellor, concluded her Canadian tour in Toronto, members of the Karen community claimed she failed to...
June 17, 2017
Anyone working for social justice in Burma should be disappointed by the mainstream media’s coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to Canada last week...
June 16, 2017
<p>An ethnic alliance organization has invited all armed groups to its bi-annual conference in Chiang Mai next week, according to an official...
June 16, 2017
In an attempt to unify one of the more fractured political fields in the country, two Chin political parties have agreed to merge, they announced...
June 16, 2017
<p>To cope with a severe funding deficit, staff at nine refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border have agreed to take a 40 percent pay cut...
June 16, 2017
In an attempt to facilitate mutual trust and strengthen the dialogue between media and government, the Myanmar Press Council brought representatives...
June 16, 2017
Over 300 Rakhine residents protested in front of a UN office in Maungdaw township on June 14 claiming the international community has not done enough...
June 16, 2017
Hundreds of Mon State residents staged a protest this week demanding the immediate closure of what they claim is a deleterious rock quarry.
June 16, 2017
Over 200 schools in Kayin (Karen) State are slated for an upgrade amid the Ministry of Education’s effort to invest more resources and place more...
June 15, 2017
Harn Yawnghwe, a son of Burma’s first president Sao Shwe Thaike, has been blacklisted by the National League for Democracy (NLD) government led by...