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Junta arrests 220 Muslims, detains them in Sittwe Prison
Shan Herald Agency for News
A makeshift refugee camp in Hsipaw Township where the villagers are staying
January 16, 2017
Mantong villagers fear returning to conflict zone
Some 150 villagers who fled their homes in Mantong Township last month due to fighting between Burmese government forces and the Ta’ang National...
Independent Mon News Agency
January 16, 2017
KNU troops fire rounds at NMSP’s The-chaung base
A unit of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), armed wing of Karen National Union (KNU) invaded and opened fire at the The-chaung base of Mon...
Karen Information Center
January 16, 2017
KNU and NMSP clash twice within the same day in Yebyu
Two skirmishes broke out between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) within the same day near Thè Chaung Phyar Village...
Network Media Group
January 13, 2017
Around 7,000 IDPs seek shelter at China-Burma border
Over 7,000 local residents and internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been forced to flee as fighting escalates between the Burma Army and the...
Mizzima
January 13, 2017
Visa welcomes opening of Myanmar’s domestic payments industr...
Visa, the leading global payments technology company, has welcomed today’s announcement from the Central Bank of Myanmar to remove restrictions on...
Mizzima
January 13, 2017
UNFC and CSOs hold workshop on natural resource management a...
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Civil Society Organizations held a “Workshop on Natural Resource Ownership, Management, Sharing...
Shan Herald Agency for News
United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma Yanghee Lee seen during her visit to Burma last year
January 12, 2017
Kachin activists presume Yanghee Lee to disclose the truth o...
Kachin activists expect Yanghee Lee, United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, to uncover the truth on human rights violations in northern...
Shan Herald Agency for News
January 12, 2017
Burma Army plans to send military detachments to build roads...
The Commander of the Burma Army’s Eastern Central Command said he will send military detachments to the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army-...
Mizzima
Yanghee Lee (R), the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, greets a Kachin ethnic woman with a child at the MaiNar KBC camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 January 2017. Yanghee Lee is in Myanmar on a 12-day visit to Kachin and Rakhine States in Myanmar. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
January 12, 2017
UN special rapporteur visits Internally Displaced camps in K...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee and delegation met with internally displaced persons in...
Independent Mon News Agency
Mon State’s Chief Minister U Min Min Oo (Photo: MNA)
January 11, 2017
Outcomes from complaints against Mon State Chief Minister to...
The outcomes from the examined complaints against Mon State Chief Minister will be disclosed within seven to ten days, according to U Nyan Win,...
Karen Information Center
January 11, 2017
KNU aims to work on land issues in practice
The Karen National Union (KNU) will not only negotiate land issues in the Karen State with the Burmese government but also carry them out in practice...
Independent Mon News Agency
Mon State Hluttaw conference (Photo:MNA)
January 11, 2017
Mon State Gov’t continues VIP guesthouse building despite Hl...
Despite the Mon State Hluttaw [Parliament] prohibiting the construction of a VIP guesthouse at the Government Residence, in Mon State’s Mawlamyine...