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May 31, 2017
Colonel Min Tun, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army, a central executive committee member of the Arakan National Council and a member of the...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar’s environmental conservationists celebrated a rare victory this week in honor of a 53,000-acre stretch of wetlands in Mon State that was...
May 31, 2017
At least one ethnic political party is fuming after an accord was signed last week at the closing of peace talks that were poorly attended. The Mon...
May 31, 2017
The Mon State Department of Education will expand 69 basic education government schools for the 2017-2018 school year, according to U Myo Tit Aung,...
Decorated Indian lawyer and women's rights campaigner, Indira Jaising
May 31, 2017
The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key step in an...
May 31, 2017
A reporter was abducted, dragged into a waiting vehicle, and then critically wounded in an auto accident on May 26, near the town of Loikaw, in...
May 31, 2017
Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked northeast after their bodies...
May 31, 2017
A dyke in Paung Township’s Ahlet Village failed on May 27, sending water rushing in and destroying five houses, according to residents. Construction...
May 31, 2017
Ethnic autonomy and the long-sought federal Union of Myanmar is not so far off, at least according to the presidential spokesperson, who outlined an...
May 31, 2017
Nearly 1,000 Mon State residents signed a petition asking the Karen National Union to cancel a quarry and a cement factory slated for construction in...
May 31, 2017
The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army announced any of its soldier or any member of the public in its territory who is caught involved in drug...
May 31, 2017
Six villagers from southern Rakhine (Arakan) State have been sentenced to one month in prison for trespassing after a local official accused them of...