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Protesters are marching in Mon State’s capital Mawlamyine (Photo: MNA)
February 6, 2017
Approximately 1500 ethnically diverse people led by civil society organizations in Mon State cooperatively staged a protest as a public movement for...
Methamphetamine tablets. Photo: EPA
February 6, 2017
Myanmar Police seized 200,000 methamphetamine drug tablets in Myomakanyintan village in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, according to a statement by...
February 3, 2017
The Karen people have finalized the draft policy papers on the four sectors that will be proposed at the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference or...
February 3, 2017
A displaced villager from the Mae Tha Wor area of Hlaingbwe Township, Karen State stepped on a landmine as he and other villagers returned to their...
An informal meeting between UPC and DPN held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 13 January 2017. Photo: Mizzima
February 3, 2017
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Joint Secretary (1) Twan Zaw said that a proposed meeting between their Delegation for Political...
February 3, 2017
The by-law to protect the right of the ethnic minorities would be approved as it has been going on in cooperation, said Saw Aung Myint Khaing,...
February 2, 2017
The government’s Peace Commission has invited the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) to separately meet in Yangon, Dr. Min Zaw Oo, member of the...
Peace Commission Advisor U Hla Maung Shwe (sitting from the left) (Photo: Khin Zaw Oo/Facebook)
February 2, 2017
Government Peace Commission has a sent letter to the United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC), a coalition of ethnic armed groups, requesting...
February 2, 2017
Locals staged a protest in Myitkyina Capital of Kachin State yesterday, in opposition against the hydro-power project workshop led by International...
Armed guards of honor march during a military parade and flag-raising ceremony held to mark the 69th Myanmar Independence Day in Naypyitaw on 04 January 2017. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
February 1, 2017
The first budget estimate presented by the Ministry of Defence to parliament after the NLD took power is lower than estimates requested in the two...
February 1, 2017
The Rakhine state parliament provided 5,000,000 kyats each township in order to start development projects in the state, as said by the state...
February 1, 2017
The clash of political interests itself is now part of politics in the modern era. Constitutional legitimacy, processes of governance, and claims to...