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The Second SMJN Conference
March 25, 2016
The second Southern Myanmar Journalists’ Network (SMJN) Conference was held in Dawei, the Tenasserim Region capital, on 19 and 20 March.
March 25, 2016
Residents of Kahnyaw Village in Chaungzon Township face difficulties accessing clean water because a construction company building an approach road...
March 24, 2016
Though the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Parliament) elected a president and two vice-presidents on 15 March the Arakan National Party (ANP) and the...
March 24, 2016
The Burma Army raided a drug rehabilitation centre in Muse Township, Central Shan State and arrested 72 people, most of them patients, for...
KIA Troops in Mongkoe Area
March 24, 2016
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) Battalion 36 targeted Burma Army Light Infantry Division (LID) 99 with a bomb near Pang Hseng (Kyu Koke) Town,...
March 22, 2016
Two men were sentenced to three years in prison for being associated with the Arakan Army at Kyauktaw Township Court on 16 March.
March 22, 2016
Members of the Save the Salween Network gathered at Wan Sala village in Shan state’s Mong Ton township on 14 March to mark International Rivers Day...
March 22, 2016
Just over 12 percent of students in Chin State due to sit matriculation exams failed to turn up, the highest absentee rate of any state or region in...
March 22, 2016
Thirty Kachin State civil society organisations (CSOs) called for a permanent halt to all dam projects in Kachin State due to a lack of transparency...
March 22, 2016
Residents of the Pein Hne Taw village group in Mon State said they oppose plans for mineral testing and a cement factory in the foothills of the...
People gather after Sittwe bomb blast
March 21, 2016
A bomb exploded loudly at midnight on Thurday 10 March in Sittwe, but no one was injured said Win Naung a police officer from Sittwe District.
March 21, 2016
Two Burma Army Deserters were found guilty of raping two girls aged eight and five and sentenced to prison in two separate cases at Sittwe District...