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December 9, 2015
Refugee camp officials on the Thai Burma are hugely concerned that suicides among camp residents are climbing.
December 9, 2015
San Maung Than — The National League for Democracy (NLD) must lead the garbage cleanup effort on its own in Thandwe Township due to complications...
Drafters discuss the political framework on December 2. (Photo: Myanmar Peace Center)
December 9, 2015
The second stage in Burma’s seven-step peace process is facing four issues which will be discussed and decided next week, according to sources within...
PSLF/TNLA armed forces (left) and RCSS/SSA-S armed forces (right)
December 9, 2015
Following fighting between the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/...
December 9, 2015
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) held a three-day 2015 general election review conference in northern Shan State at the end of...
Representatives Protest in Japan
December 8, 2015
Request letters were handed in to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), urging...
UNFC Vice Chairman Nai Hongsar (Photo: IMNA)
December 8, 2015
The Tatmadaw (Burma Army) wants peace but does not want to change the 2008 constitution according to Nai Hongsar, the vice-chairman of the United...
December 8, 2015
Thuta Linn — Although ethnic basic parties did not do well in Kachin State during the recent election, ethnic party candidates from the state say...
December 8, 2015
Salai Lal Nun UK — A group of party representatives from the three ethnic Chin parties in Chin State’s Mindat Township have threatened to resign if...
Burma’s embassy representatives handling documents containing requests (Photo: TACDB)
December 8, 2015
Protesters gathered in front of the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand on 27 November to call for a stop to the ongoing civil war in Burma.
December 7, 2015
The Bangladesh Coastguard arrested two Burmese nationals smuggling yaba (amphetamine) tablets across the Burma-Bangladesh border on the Naff River on...
December 7, 2015
A Rohingya refugee from Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh died on 2 December at after being hit by an auto-rickshaw on 30 November,...