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The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting of the second session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Nay Pyi Taw on 28 May 2017. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
May 30, 2017
Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater...
Two Wa soldiers from the United Wa State Army (USWA) stand armed on a construction site. Photo: AFP
May 30, 2017
Seven Northern Alliance non-ceasefire signatory armed groups have left the second meeting of 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference on Saturday for...
May 30, 2017
One of the groups involved in inter-ethnic hostilities in Shan State has indicated a willingness to start negotiating a resolution.
May 30, 2017
The United Wa State Army (UWSA), an ethnic armed group that operates essentially its own fiefdom on the border with China, last week reiterated its...
May 30, 2017
Peace negotiators are anxious to see long-promised mine clearance activities get underway so that refugee resettlement and development can move...
The political sector at the Panglong Conference (Ko Thu)
May 29, 2017
Mon political parties attending national peace talks in Naypyitaw this weeks are balking at the government’s insistence on including “non-secession...
May 27, 2017
Under a federal Union, what would happen to all of the many armed groups in Myanmar? According to the Tatmadaw, they would all be disband as there...
May 26, 2017
Ethnic minorities should continue to enjoy the right to secede, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) argued at the Union Peace...
The Mon National Party’s general secretary Nai Layih Tamarh (Photo-MNA)
May 26, 2017
The ethnic perspectives represented at the second session of the Union Peace Conference – or the 21st-Century Panglong Conference – are not fully...
Checking water quality near Kanbe Lake (Photo: Facebook)
May 26, 2017
The Mon State Government has asked for assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as it tries to assess the scope of pollution...
Participants of the peace conference meet on the third day of the Land and Environment session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 26 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
May 26, 2017
The Union Peace Conference— 21st Century Panglong (second session) discussed position papers in five sectors and reached agreement for the majority...
May 26, 2017
Unable to attend the Panglong peace conference as full participants, the Karenni National Progressive Party and the other six members of the United...