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June 12, 2017
Myanmar has granted a presidential pardon to 33 Bangladeshi nationals who were jailed on separate occasions for illegally entering the country...
June 12, 2017
After the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) resignation, followed by the Wa National Organization (WNO), the hitherto United Nationalities...
June 12, 2017
Mon State parliamentarians have called for an immediate halt of unlicensed laterite excavating and selling.
The late S S. Khaplang, centre, seen here at his camp in Myanmar. Photo: samir kar purkayastha/PCDN
June 12, 2017
The Burmese Naga rebel leader S S Khaplang has died of illness, his comrades said late on Friday.
June 9, 2017
<p>Marking its 20th anniversary, the Karen Information Center (KIC) News held a media roundtable discussion about the future of media in...
 U Chit Tin, Mon State Hluttaw MP from Ye constituency 2, submitted a proposal on June 7 calling for the government to crackdown on unlicensed quarries. (photo: MNA)
June 9, 2017
<p>Mon State parliamentarians have called for an immediate halt of unlicensed laterite excavating and selling.</p> <p>MPs said that...
June 9, 2017
<p>Six people, including children, were injured during a lightning storm that struck an unofficial refugee camp in Bangladesh on June 7,...
June 8, 2017
Mon educators are still waiting to hear from the Union government about a proposal to fund Mon national schools.
June 8, 2017
Vehicles have been instructed not to travel around Kachin State’s notorious jade town in the evenings due to ongoing military conflict between the...
U Min Kyaw Lwin (left) has been nominated to serve as Mon State’s Minister for Construction and Municipal Affairs (photo: MNA)
June 8, 2017
The Mon State government has put forward a name to fill the Minister for Construction post, which has been vacant since a resignation earlier this...
U Min Kyaw Lwin (left) has been nominated to serve as Mon State’s Minister for Construction and Municipal Affairs (photo: MNA)
June 8, 2017
<p>The Mon State government has put forward a name to fill the Minister for Construction post, which has been vacant since a resignation...
June 8, 2017
It’s time to admit the current peace process isn’t working and to demand an overhaul, a June 8 statement from the Karen National Union Concerned...