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Photo by SHAN- A military checkpoint in Khojom village, Monghsu Township
January 20, 2017
The Burmese military today ordered the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) to immediately withdraw its troops from Monghsu Township...
People walk through a street market in Yangon. Photo: AFP
January 20, 2017
A new census report reveals that an estimated 4.25 million people who were born in Myanmar now live abroad, according to a press release by the...
Photo: Wai Phyo Han/Facebook
January 20, 2017
Two bus conductors were arrested and handed over to Insein Police Station for committing physical assault against a female passenger at Sawbwagyigon...
January 19, 2017
Fujitsu yesterday announced that it is conducting training for employees from across all 22 departments of Myanmar's government in order to...
A military checkpoint in Shan State
January 19, 2017
Citing concerns about corruption and graft, representatives of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) have petitioned the central...
Electricity towers and lines seen across local paddy fields (Photo: Naiaung Naing)
January 19, 2017
The department overseeing electric power transmission projects will designate over 45,000,000 Kyat on Friday, as compensation to the locals whose...
January 19, 2017
The Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party (PSDP), which is based in the Karen State’s capital Hpa-an, will run for a seat in the Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House...
January 19, 2017
Ar-yon-Oo Group, a local group formed with Thet people in Maungdaw, held a meeting on 15 January to explain the 21st Century Panglong Conference to...
Research Paper Reading Ceremony on Ramannadesa (photo: MNA)
January 18, 2017
Ancient Mon laterite artefacts, including a stupa and Buddha images sculptured from laterite, are found mostly in Mon State’s Kyaikhto township,...
January 18, 2017
Some 40 Shan migrant workers in northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai province say they have been cheated by the Thai Isara Construction Company when...
Dumdaw Nawng Lat, left and Langjaw Gam Seng, right. Photo: Facebook
January 18, 2017
Amnesty International as called for urgent action to be taken over two missing Kachin Pastors.
January 18, 2017
A path has opened for environmental conservationists and rights advocates to strengthen their fight against gold mining and other socially and...