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January 18, 2017
Human Rights Watch and Fortify Rights called for the Burma government to release information on two ethnic Kachin Baptist leaders missing since late...
January 18, 2017
The installation of cable cars on Karen State’s famous and symbolic, Zwekabin Mountain is to start in February after investing companies have signed...
AMDP candidate Nai Win Htut competing for Chaungzone Township’s Pyithu Hluttaw (Photo: MNA)
January 18, 2017
“First priority is to aid development for farmers. I want to develop the technical sector, particularly irrigation for farmers… Second is to...
January 18, 2017
Fortify Rights, an international human rights organization called on the government of China to offer safe refuge to “thousands of ethnic Kachin...
Photo by SHRF- Nang Khin Than Nu was injured by Burmese army air strike.
January 18, 2017
Burmese military fighter jets killed three villagers and injured seven others in a bombing mission in Kyaukme Township, northern Shan State, the Shan...
January 17, 2017
Mon State experienced 794 vehicle accidents from January to December of 2016, with a prevalent increase in motorbike accidents.
UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee and her team (Photo: MNA)
January 17, 2017
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, Ms. Yanghee Lee, visited a production camp of the Correctional...
January 17, 2017
Peace-related civil society organisations (CSOs) held a meeting from morning to noon at Aung Myay Gone Monastery in the Arakan State’s capital Sittwe...
January 16, 2017
The unexpected death of a young Karen woman found in a Bangkok apartment on January 3, 2017, has raised suspicions among the Karen community.
Eight-point draft policy on political sector discussed for national-level political dialogue held at Zwegabin Hall in the Karen State’s capital Hpa-an
January 16, 2017
Karen representatives discussed an eight-point draft policy for the political sector during the Karen National Political Dialogue for Political...
January 16, 2017
The Shan State Army – North (SSA-N) will allow the Burmese government to hold the by-election and set up a polling station in Wan Hai, where its...
Aung Hlaing Oo (left) sent gift to Ambassador Andrii Beshta(right) on the opening ceremony. Photo by Deming Zhang
January 16, 2017
The first Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Myanmar was officially opened this week in Yangon. Both Myanmar and Ukraine would try their best to...