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A man pretends to fish out of a pothole in a section of the Mawlamyine-Thanbyuzayat road. (Photo – Facebook)
September 5, 2017
One of the main arteries through Mon State – a pot-hole ridden, corroded road connecting Mawlamyine to Thanbyuzayat – is currently in the process of...
September 5, 2017
The BBC's Burmese language service on Monday said it was pulling a broadcasting deal with a popular Myanmar television channel citing "censorship",...
September 4, 2017
<p>A refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is under a partial quarantine following an H1N1 patient&rsquo;s death on August 31. Aid...
September 4, 2017
The Kayin (Karen) State government is planning to hold a multiethnic cultural festival next year. On September 2, government officials held a...
September 4, 2017
<p>Two years after the 2014 census was conducted, government officials are just getting around to explaining the point of all those questions...
Workers use heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
September 4, 2017
Efforts are being made to pursue more environmentally friendly practices in the Lonkhin-Hpakant Gems Tract in cooperation with local companies.
Workers use heavy earth-excavators at the Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 25 February 2017. Photo: La Min Tun/EPA
September 4, 2017
Efforts are being made to pursue more environmentally friendly practices in the Lonkhin-Hpakant Gems Tract in cooperation with local companies.
Participants at the forum. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
September 4, 2017
At a forum held in Yangon to celebrate and discuss 70 years of India-Myanmar relations, a key message to come out being the need to substantially...
Smoke rises from Sein Nyin Pya village in Buthidaung township on 30 August 2017. Photo: Ko Wai Hin Aung
September 4, 2017
The following is a statement issued by a collection of INGOs that have been working in Myanmar regarding the violence in Rakhine State:
September 1, 2017
Failing to find a sympathetic ear in the Shan State government office, 150 farmers have taken their land complaints to the state Hluttaw instead.
A local-level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee office in Hpapun township was launched with an opening ceremony on August 30. (Photo: the Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Office)
September 1, 2017
Supporting the nuts and bolts of implementing the peace process, a local-level committee was formed with an office in Hpapun township, Kayin (Karen)...
September 1, 2017
Thailand has asked Myanmar to upgrade a high traffic border checkpoint in Kayin (Karen) State that was closed in July due to flooding. They also...