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January 13, 2017
Visa welcomes opening of Myanmar’s domestic payments industr...
Visa, the leading global payments technology company, has welcomed today’s announcement from the Central Bank of Myanmar to remove restrictions on...
Mizzima
January 13, 2017
UNFC and CSOs hold workshop on natural resource management a...
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Civil Society Organizations held a “Workshop on Natural Resource Ownership, Management, Sharing...
Shan Herald Agency for News
United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma Yanghee Lee seen during her visit to Burma last year
January 12, 2017
Kachin activists presume Yanghee Lee to disclose the truth o...
Kachin activists expect Yanghee Lee, United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, to uncover the truth on human rights violations in northern...
Shan Herald Agency for News
January 12, 2017
Burma Army plans to send military detachments to build roads...
The Commander of the Burma Army’s Eastern Central Command said he will send military detachments to the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army-...
Mizzima
Yanghee Lee (R), the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, greets a Kachin ethnic woman with a child at the MaiNar KBC camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 January 2017. Yanghee Lee is in Myanmar on a 12-day visit to Kachin and Rakhine States in Myanmar. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
January 12, 2017
UN special rapporteur visits Internally Displaced camps in K...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee and delegation met with internally displaced persons in...
Independent Mon News Agency
Mon State’s Chief Minister U Min Min Oo (Photo: MNA)
January 11, 2017
Outcomes from complaints against Mon State Chief Minister to...
The outcomes from the examined complaints against Mon State Chief Minister will be disclosed within seven to ten days, according to U Nyan Win,...
Karen Information Center
January 11, 2017
KNU aims to work on land issues in practice
The Karen National Union (KNU) will not only negotiate land issues in the Karen State with the Burmese government but also carry them out in practice...
Independent Mon News Agency
Mon State Hluttaw conference (Photo:MNA)
January 11, 2017
Mon State Gov’t continues VIP guesthouse building despite Hl...
Despite the Mon State Hluttaw [Parliament] prohibiting the construction of a VIP guesthouse at the Government Residence, in Mon State’s Mawlamyine...
MNP Candidate Nai Sein Mya Maung (Photo: MNA)
January 11, 2017
“I’d first make changes for the betterment of the people’s l...
Born in Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State, Nai Sein Mya Maung, an executive member of the Mon National Party (MNP) and legal affairs chief, is to...
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The government delegation led by Aung Kyi, centre, and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) meet in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 25 September 2016. Photo: Phanida
January 11, 2017
Government’s peace commission and DPN to meet in Chiang Mai...
The Union government’s peace commission and the UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will meet again in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 13...
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In this photograph taken October 13, 2016, armed rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect the frontline after it was hit by a military bomb during two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
January 11, 2017
Myanmar military takes four KIA outposts
Seven Kachin Independence Army troops (KIA) were killed as the Myanmar Army took over four more outposts from the powerful ethnic Kachin armed group...
Network Media Group
Over 2,000 Zai Awng IDPs Flee from War for the Third Time
January 11, 2017
Over 2,000 Zai Awng IDPs Flee from War for the Third Time
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing from Zai Awng IDP camp at China-Burma border have to flee to a new safe location on 7 January after the...