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August 2, 2017
<p>According to a Rakhine State minister, no one is facing famine in the state, especially not the &lsquo;Bengalis&rsquo; in the north...
Members of the Tai Youth Network meet with Shan residents of Bago Region
August 2, 2017
<p>A Shan youth network is preparing to hold a conference in Bago Region, the third such event the group has held since 2013.</p> <p...
Participants in the blue-ribbon campaign in front of the Technology University of Mawlamyine (Photo: Internet)
August 2, 2017
Over 60 lecturers and professors from the Technological University of Mawlamyine have joined a nationwide blue-ribbon campaign against unfair...
August 2, 2017
Complainant Kyaw Myo Shwe said that he would file a direct complaint at court for cancellation of bail given to Myanmar Now Chief Editor Swe Win by...
Min Kyaw Zayar Oo
August 1, 2017
Min Kyaw Zayar Oo is a central executive committee member of the Mon National Party, and is a secretary member of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint...
August 1, 2017
Peace negotiators for the government and representatives from an alliance of ethnic armed groups are expected to meet for more informal talks on...
August 1, 2017
Karen activists and aid workers are trying to drum up last-minute support for a shelter of internally displaced persons, before it runs out of...
Mon State Hluttaw and State Health officials discuss the H1N1 outbreak (photo: Naiaung Naing/Facebook)
August 1, 2017
<p>The H1N1 virus, which has been causing infections throughout Myanmar (Burma) for the past several weeks, has not yet been detected in Mon...
Ye township officials held a H1N1 awareness-raising talk on July 31. (Photo: MNA)
August 1, 2017
<p>As a deadly swine flu outbreak continues to spread in Myanmar, Mon State residents are urging the government to appoint a doctor to at...
(L-R first row) Thu Wai, Chairman Democratic Party, Lt-general Tin Maung Win, Tin Myo Win Chairman of Peace Commission, KNU vice chairman Saw kawl Htoo win and Lower house parliament member Htun Htun Hain sign during the Union Accord signing during the closing ceremony of the second session of the 'Union Peace Conference - 21st century Panglong' in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 29 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
August 1, 2017
The second session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference ended with the revival of the word ‘secession’ a word that people have long been...
July 31, 2017
<p>A search party has been deployed to locate Ko Maung Than Htay, a missing resident of Chut Pyin Village.</p> <p>A search party...
July 31, 2017
<p>General Saw Ka Sel Doh, a Karen resistance fighter who joined the Karen Nation Union&rsquo;s armed wing in the first months of its...