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June 22, 2016
Residents of southern Shan State’s Panglong sub-township have called on the newly elected government led by the National League for Democracy (NLD)...
June 22, 2016
300,000 Rohingya living in the Cox’s Bazar district belong to 37,000 families - 20,000 exclusively Rohingya families and 17,000 mixed with...
June 22, 2016
Foot-and- mouth disease broke out in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State on 11 June and has caused acute difficulties for paddy farmers in the areas,...
June 22, 2016
Bangladesh has decided to handle Burma “very softly” in handling for Rohingya issue and would not raise any issues that may displease Burma after...
June 21, 2016
The Mon National Party (MNP) has urged the Mon State Chief Minister to withdraw the proposed issuing of household documents to migrant workers in an...
Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with Ms Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: MNA
June 21, 2016
Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Ms Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...
June 21, 2016
Arakan State government has formed a committee to scrutinize the citizenship issues relating to those people who received the National Verification...
Location of NMSP gate raided, near Kaw Sak Village (Photo: Google Earth)
June 21, 2016
About 30 Burma Army soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 81 (LIB-81) seized a New Mon State party (NMSP) tollgate near Kaw Sak Village in...
KIA troops in Shan State
June 21, 2016
Troops from the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Regiment 6 attacked a Burma Army camp in Bang Lum Bum Mountain, between Mongyar and Mongkoe in...
June 21, 2016
Leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) have confirmed that they will participate in the “21st...
Policy Dialogue on Socio-Economic Development in Myanmar held at Kandawgyti Palace in Yagon on 28 May, 2016. Photo: Phyo Thiha/Mizzima
June 21, 2016
At the recently concluded policy dialogue on Socio-Economic Development in Myanmar on 28th May, 2016, jointly conducted by Mizzima and ActionAid...
June 21, 2016
The Karen Women’s Organisation released a statement to commemorate the 2016 World Refugee Day and said that despite recent positive changes in Burma...