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June 14, 2017
<p>Peace has paved the way for tourism in Kayin (Karen) State, tourism officials said this week.</p> <p>U Win Kyaw, deputy director...
June 14, 2017
<p>Sittwe police busted a shipment of over 3.4 million amphetamine tablets worth an estimated K1.02 billion on June 11. The drugs, which were...
Sa Par Htar villagers rest at the Kha Maung Taw Monastery on June 12. The monastery is sheltering people who have come to Sittwe to seek testing and treatment for dengue.
June 14, 2017
<p>The dengue fever outbreak in Rakhine State&rsquo;s Ponnagyun township has claimed one life, and is overrunning Sittwe Hospital.</p...
Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint met with Shan State Hluttaw MPs on June 10 in Taunggyi.
June 14, 2017
<p>June 13, by Yain Tai</p> <p>A Shan politician is questioning why the National League for Democracy has fallen silent on...
Bogyoke Aung San Bridge (Bilu Kyun Island). Photo: Ministry of Construction
June 14, 2017
Outrage and protests that a new bridge in Mon State will be named after General Aung San against locals wishes have overshadowed the change it will...
Sweden's Prime minister Stefan Lofven (R) and Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) during a press conference after their meeting at the Rosenbad in Stockholm, Sweden, 12 June 2017. Photo: EPA
June 14, 2017
A United Nations probe into alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar's military against the minority Rohingya people last year would inflame ethnic...
June 13, 2017
<p>June 11</p> <p>The curfew has been extended in Rakhine State&rsquo;s Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships now eight months...
June 13, 2017
<p>Over two dozen Sittwe farmers have rejected compensation offered for their confiscated farmland, demanding either payment at market value,...
June 13, 2017
<p>Rakhine nationalists staged a protest last week against the government&rsquo;s ongoing citizenship review process and recent allotment...
IDPs seeking refuge in Tanai town have been instructed to move to Nawng Long Kawng Ra Village, where civilians have reported been injured by recent heavy artillery.
June 13, 2017
Thousands of civilians remain trapped after attempting to flee their homes amid clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army around...
June 12, 2017
Relatives of a man killed last month in an alleged hit-and-run are trying to take legal action against the suspect, a Tatmadaw private, but claim...
June 12, 2017
Food prices are reportedly soaring in Maungdaw township, where locals said that ingredients commonly used to break Ramadan fast are being sold at...