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January 19, 2016
Representatives attend NMSP’s 9th Congress (Photo: Sike Chan Htaw) The New Mon State Party (NMSP) says it will work towards a genuine federal union...
From left to right: Dr. Salai Lian Hmung Sakhong of the Chin National Front (CNF), Lt.-Gen. Yawd Serk of the RCSS/SSA-S, Gen. Mutu Say Poe of the Karen National Union (KNU), and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of the NLD attend the opening ceremony of the Union Peace Conference on January 12, 2016. (Photo: KNU-HQ)
January 18, 2016
A leadership delegation from the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S) flew to Switzerland on 15 January for a ten-day...
January 18, 2016
Chin leaders decided that the Chin people should hold discussions about how they should approach the upcoming national political dialogue, when they...
January 18, 2016
Ethnic Pa-O, Shan-ni, Ta’ang and Wa representatives demanded self-administrated states at the Union Peace Conference in Naypyitaw last Thursday, 14...
January 18, 2016
Khine Nwe Oo — The National League for Democracy (NLD) in Tanintharyi Region says it is ready to cooperate with the Dawei Nationalities Party (DNP)...
January 15, 2016
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) will not be attending the Union Peace Conference (UPC) currently happening in Nay Pyi Taw, according to NMSP Vice-...
January 15, 2016
A Rohingya fisherman was shot dead by Burmese Border Guard Police (BGP) while he was fishing on the Naff River at about 9.30pm on 10 January, said...
Conference of ethnic armed organizations in Laiza, Kachin State (Photo: Internet)
January 15, 2016
Ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) that did not sign last year’s nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) will not participate in the Union Peace...
January 15, 2016
Myanmar’s Union Peace Conference (UPC) kicked off on 12 January 2016 in Naypyitaw, ahead of the first round of formal national-level political...
General Thein Sein presiding over the National Convention, 2004-2007 (Photo: AFP)
January 14, 2016
Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) non-signatories, who have been designated as ‘special invitees,’ will be permitted to address the first Union...
January 14, 2016
The fifth annual meeting of the Chin Media Network will be held in Tiddim Town from 20-22 January.
January 13, 2016
Salai Kyaw Moe — The following interviews are with representatives from two ethnic Chin political parties on the future of Chin state in the wake of...