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A view of the Telenor Myanmar headquarters in Yangon. Photo: Telenor Myanmar
April 29, 2016
Telecom operator Telenor Myanmar has named two start-ups it has accepted for its first accelerator programme, business website dealstreetasia.com...
Logging truck, Strand Rd., Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
April 29, 2016
Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the new government of Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, the Global New Light of...
Credit: Isreal Embassy, Yangon
April 29, 2016
A delegation of senior members from the Myanmar livestock and dairy farms sector visited a demonstration dairy farm in Vietnam this week, under the...
April 29, 2016
Across Myanmar landmines pose a daily threat of death and disability, but five years after the transition to democracy began, an official clearance...
April 29, 2016
Three people were wounded when a landmine exploded as they were sightseeing in Northern Burma on Tuesday 26 April. The three people were two German...
April 29, 2016
Villagers in Doo Tha Htoo District Karen State are demanding to be paid full compensation for their lands they allege were illegally taken by one of...
April 29, 2016
258 Ya Ba tablets, along with 3 long knives, one hand-grenade and an air gun were seized in Azin Village, Ye Township on the morning of April 26,...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the UJMC met at the Horizon Lake View hotel in Nay Pyi Taw on 27 April 2016. Photo: Nay Thar/Mizzima
April 28, 2016
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a national peace conference within the next two months, the Global New Light of Myanmar reported...
April 28, 2016
Plainly fed up with the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), which was signed 6 months ago in Naypyitaw, as a “so called” by some media agencies and...
April 28, 2016
Mon political parties’ representatives will not participate in the 8th Mon National Conference, led by the Mon Affairs Union (MAU), in Japan Well...
April 28, 2016
Mon State government is unable to provide electricity to Ye Township with its 2016-2017 budget, according to a press conference by Mon State’s...
Refugees from Maung Hnama Village in Pyinnyarwa Village
April 27, 2016
Aid groups have been unable to reach 62 refugees in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State who had to flee their village due to intense fighting between the...