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Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) prior to their talks at a hotel in Tokyo, Japan, 03 November 2016. Suu Kyi is in Tokyo on her first visit since she assumed office as the Foreign Minister in 2016. Photo: EPA
November 5, 2016
Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Myanmar’s State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi agreed yesterday to cooperate in efforts to end ethnic...
Photo: Patrick Brown/Panos
November 4, 2016
A new report launched today by Human Rights Watch called “‘The Farmer Becomes the Criminal’: Land Confiscation in Burma’s Karen State” documents how...
Mon State Youth Policy Affair Workshop (Photo: Ma Khine/Facebook)
November 4, 2016
The Mon State Youth Network will hold a forum on November 5-6, to draft a Mon State Youth Policy and select youth representatives, according to the...
Phil Robertson Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch. Photo: HRW
November 4, 2016
In light of the release of the report, ‘The Farmer Becomes the Criminal’: Land Confiscation in Burma’s Karen State,” Mizzima talked to Phil Robertson...
Deputy speaker Dr. Aung Naing Oo was discussing at the Hluttaw (Photo: MNA)
November 3, 2016
The Mon State Hluttaw has received over 700 complaint letters from the public within almost 9 months since it has taken office.
November 3, 2016
Ethnic people will not tolerate being cheated again, and they must see the signs of a true federal union before the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (...
People protesting against the KIO/KIA in Myikyina
November 3, 2016
As public and religious organisations across Burma call on the Burma Army to halt its offensives a protest against the Kachin Independence...
A quarry project site on Kaylatha Mountain nature conservation area (Photo: Eleven News)
November 2, 2016
Union Minister of the Natural Resource and Environment Conservation Ministry has stopped Rock Well Mining Co., Ltd from preparing its rock and quarry...
November 1, 2016
A report by the Chiang Mai-based Lahu National Development Organisation (LNDO) details how the Burma Army and government militia troop numbers are...
November 1, 2016
The much awaited Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting from 28 to 29 October in Naypyitaw was hailed as a step forward in conducting...
AMDP members holding Chaungzone Township Executive meeting
November 1, 2016
All regular members and executive members of Chaungzone Township’s All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) will resign from the party if the party won...
October 31, 2016
The book has been published since 2011. But it is only this year I have the luck to receive a copy from a friend in London. And I’m not disappointed.