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September 12, 2017
<p>Security has been beefed up along the Myanmar-Thai border in response to rumors and scaremongering on social media, according to a member of...
The United Nations Security Council holds vote on sanctions resolution against North Korea at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 11 September 2017. Photo: Andrew Gombert/EPA
September 12, 2017
The United Nations Security Council will meet Wednesday to discuss the violence in Myanmar that has sent more than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing...
September 11, 2017
Civil society groups in Kayin (Karen) State last week discussed concerns that the official ceasefire monitoring body may restrict their peace-related...
September 11, 2017
A ceremony was held in Sittwe on September 9 to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the death of Rakhine monk and colonial independence icon Sayadaw...
September 11, 2017
The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) has sent a high-level delegation to Nay Pyi Taw to hash out alleged disagreements over the ceasefire...
September 11, 2017
Union Solidarity and Development Party Chairman Than Htay said that since Myanmar is situated among three populous countries with high population...
Aye Chan Naing, executive director of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) (Photo: Subir Bhaumik)
September 9, 2017
<p>"Come what may, regardless of who likes us or not, we will report the truth," Aye Chan Naing, executive director of the Democratic...
September 9, 2017
<p>Amid rumors about boats with undocumented nationals coming to shore, and countrywide warnings of terrorist plots, Mon State authorities have...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Photo: EPA
September 8, 2017
<p>Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Thursday afternoon broke his vow to remain silent on public affairs out of &lsquo;profound sadness...
Journalists Aye Nai (L) and Lawi Weng speak to journalists from inside a prisoner transport vehicle outside the courthouse in Hsipaw in Shan State on July 28, 2017. Photo: AFP
September 8, 2017
<p>In an open letter to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Reporters Without Borders (RSF, also known under its French name Reporters sans...
September 8, 2017
<p>Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) Chairman Gen. Yawd Serk said that he would meet State Counsellor Aung San Suu...
Mon State Chief Minister U Aye Zan (Photo – MNA)
September 8, 2017
<p>The Mon State Chief Minister has poured cold water on the idea of appointing a Mon ethnic affairs minister.</p> <p>Mon State...