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November 1, 2016
A report by the Chiang Mai-based Lahu National Development Organisation (LNDO) details how the Burma Army and government militia troop numbers are...
November 1, 2016
The much awaited Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting from 28 to 29 October in Naypyitaw was hailed as a step forward in conducting...
AMDP members holding Chaungzone Township Executive meeting
November 1, 2016
All regular members and executive members of Chaungzone Township’s All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) will resign from the party if the party won...
October 31, 2016
The book has been published since 2011. But it is only this year I have the luck to receive a copy from a friend in London. And I’m not disappointed.
October 31, 2016
People displaced from the Mae Tha Wor area of Karen State by fighting are too scared to return home because they fear being interrogated by the Burma...
Ethnic Kachin people and activists gather on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Myitsone dam project suspension at the Irrawaddy river, Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 October 2015. Photo: Seng Mai/EPA
October 31, 2016
<p>Seventy-six concerned residents in Injanyang Township, Kachin State, have sent an open petition to President Htin Kyaw, urging him to...
October 31, 2016
150,000,000 Kyat of the Union government’s 2016-17 budget has been allocated to excavating the ancient Suvarnabhumi site, set to begin in the first...
Mon National High School in Winkabar Village
October 31, 2016
The Mon National Education Seminar will be held in the second week of December, for the purpose of receiving advice from experts and the public as...
October 31, 2016
Some 100 representatives from civil society organizations, political parties and farmers across Shan State held a press conference today in state...
General Zawng Hra
October 31, 2016
On the 56th anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), their Chairman, General Lanyaw Zawng Hra, warned in a speech...
October 28, 2016
Sixty-five refugees from Nu Po Refugee Camp in Tak Province, Thailand arrived at a welcome camp in Myawaddy, Karen State at 2.30pm on 26 October.
The AGGIP Annual Meeting (Photo - AGGIP)
October 28, 2016
The Alliance for Gender Inclusion in the Peace Process (AGIPP) will continue to push for 30 per cent women’s participation in Burma’s peace process,...