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February 12, 2019
Speaker of the Chin State parliament Zo Bawi said that the state government is considering promoting Paletwa and Tedim from townships to districts...
February 11, 2019
An inspection committee has begun investigating the antimony metal refinery plants in Mon State’s capital city, Mawlamyine, following the complaints...
February 11, 2019
A local report on the impacts of Chinese tissue culture banana plantations in Kachin State’s Waingmaw Township launched in Myitkyina on Thursday. The...
February 11, 2019
A coordination meeting was held February 8 in parliament for forming a joint committee with 45 members to amend the 2008 Constitution speedily but it...
February 11, 2019
Police officers arrested dozens of protestors in eastern Myanmar who now face charges of unlawful assembly, an activist leader said on Friday, after...
Myanmar soldiers, arriving back from the unrest area in Rakhine state, march in Sittwe city, capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar, 31 October 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
February 11, 2019
The U.N. refugee agency says it is worried by reports of people fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar's southern Chin State and Rakhine State,...
February 11, 2019
Kachin Political Leaders Meet Norwegian Delegation in Myitkyina on Feb. 8, 2019 In a meeting with Norway’s deputy head of mission to Burma on Friday...
February 11, 2019
A delegation from the Burmese government will meet with four members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed groups this week, according to the...
February 8, 2019
The former Kachin State minister of natural resources and the environment was appointed the chairperson of the state’s ethnic affairs committee in...
February 8, 2019
Two jade pickers have yet to be found after a landslide occurred on Monday in a mining block in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township. The incident...
February 8, 2019
In the first demonstration on Myitkyina’s Manau grounds, around 7,000 locals demonstrated against the Myitsone hydropower dam, calling for a...
People from Kachin State shout slogans and hold placards during a protest held to show opposition to the Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam project in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 07 February 2019. Photo: Si Thu MKN
February 8, 2019
About 10,000 people in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state staged a massive protest Thursday against the controversial Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam and...