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January 17, 2026
KIA forces seize Myanmar junta outpost in Bhamo, 20 soldiers...
January 17, 2026
Seven soldiers, 3 ALP members fled from Sittwe Shwe Min Gan...
January 16, 2026
More than 3,000 IDPs in southern Myawaddy face food shortage...
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Found guilty - Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin (front) and Wai Phyo (back) arrive for their murder case verdict at the Samui Provincial Court on Koh Samui Island, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, 24 December 2015. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
December 24, 2015
Myanmar migrant workers found guilty in Koh Tao murders case
Two Myanmar migrant workers have been found guilty and sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of two British tourists on the Thai island of...
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December 24, 2015
North Dagon squatters refuse municipal eviction notice
The North Dagon Township city development committee recently sent eviction notices to people living in dwellings built along Ngamoeyeik Creek in Ward...
December 24, 2015
Ethnic parties in Kachin state want by-elections soon
By Thuta Linn — Ethnic parties in Kachin state parties want Burma’s incoming government to hold by-election soon. “Even if the by-elections are held...
December 24, 2015
SNLD leader wants NLD to give consideration to human rights...
Mya Wun Yan — The NLD needs to give special consideration to the ongoing wars and human rights violation affecting people in four townships in Shan...
December 24, 2015
Election commission postpones hearing into NLD complaint aga...
Thuta Linn — The Union Election Commission (UEC) has formally delayed a hearing to look into a complaint filled against the reelected Kachin State...
December 24, 2015
Ten Karenni State candidates yet to submit election expenses
Htoe Myar — Ten candidates who ran in the 2015 election in Karenni State have yet to submit their expenses related paperwork to the Loikaw District...
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December 23, 2015
NGO raps ‘brazen bid for presidential immunity’
Myanmar’s parliament should reject a proposed law that would shield former presidents from prosecution for crimes committed during their terms in...
Independent Mon News Agency
December 23, 2015
More than 330 Crimes Committed in Ye This Year
More than 330 cries were reported in Ye Township, Mon State for all of 2015 according to the Ye Township Police Chief's Office.
Shan Herald Agency for News
U San Yu Kyaw- the First Secretary and Consul of the Chiang Mai-based Myanmar Consulate-General
December 23, 2015
NGOs Demand Better Conditions for Burmese Migrant Workers
A coalition of NGOs in Thailand publicly called on the Burmese government to better address hardships faced by migrant workers in Thailand on 18...
Khonumthung News
December 23, 2015
Number of Recorded Chin Tribes Revised
A Chin National Action Committee on Census (CNACC) statement said that the government figures from the 2014 National Census that state there are 53...
Kaladan Press
December 23, 2015
Burma - Bangladesh Border Tension
Bangladesh lodged a protest with Burma after Burmese security forces killed a Bangladeshi villager and injured another on 14 and 15 December in what...
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Damaged Buddha statues in Tarlay on 26 March 2011 after the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit in eastern Shan State.
December 23, 2015
INGOs push disaster risk education in Myanmar
With earthquakes, flooding and cyclones an ever-present danger, the importance of DRR or Disaster Risk Reduction education is growing in importance...