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October 24, 2016
As the war in Kachin and Shan States has been going on and off for a few years, with a newly exploded rebellion of the Rohingya in Arakan State, the...
Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during Myanmar Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 at Myanmar International Convention Center (MICC-2) in Naypyitaw, on 22 October 2016. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
October 24, 2016
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has made a pitch to local and foreign investors, pledging that there would be transparency and...
Road expansion failure at Kannar Lan as seawater floods the road (Photo:MNA)
October 24, 2016
If companies winning Mon State Government tenders won’t provide services or products to a quality industry standard, then they will face certain...
Meeting aimed at re-analysing political discourse framework (Photo: Hla Maung Shwe)
October 24, 2016
Since only ethnic armed groups that inked nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) are allowed to lead the national level political discourses, problems...
October 24, 2016
Leaders from the Karen National Union and the News Mon State Party agreed more effort is needed to prevent territorial disputes between the two...
DPNS 28th Anniversary Celebrations.
October 21, 2016
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) chairman, U Aung Moe Zaw, urged the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army to declare a nationwide...
October 21, 2016
Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September...
Local making bamboo hat in Chaungzone Township (Photo: MNA)
October 21, 2016
The Mon State Government will implement a local business stimulus project in the forthcoming 2017-2018 fiscal year in the respective townships of...
Bulldozer seen on June Cement Industry Ltd’s land (Photo: MNA)
October 21, 2016
The June Cement Industry Ltd will not return farmland purchased from locals in the Pyartaung area, Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State and will continue...
October 21, 2016
The Karen State government has been making arrangements for the return of over 90 Burmese refugees from refugee camps in Thailand back to Burma.
Protesters in Chipwe
October 20, 2016
Residents of Chipwe in Kachin State staged a protest march to demand that the Lisu National Development Party (LNDP) retracts its demand for a Lisu...
Photo: Khaing Kaung San/Facebook
October 20, 2016
Regional civil society organizations said on Wednesday that ongoing conflicts between the government military and armed ethnic groups in Shan and...