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April 6, 2020
Eighteen ambassadors to Burma from Europe and the US called for an end to fighting in Chin and Rakhine states to prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic...
April 6, 2020
Khaing Roe La — A former Arakan State minister for security and border affairs, Colonel Htein Lin, has been appointed as a peace advisor for the...
Daw Phyu Thein Chay, wife of a Tatmadaw corporal, succumbed to gunshot wounds on April 3.( Photo: CJ)
April 6, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — The wife of a corporal from a Tatmadaw battalion based in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township was fatally shot on April 3, according...
The victim U Saw Naing Win was being taken to Sittwe Hospital on Friday morning.( Photo: Aung Htein / DMG)
April 6, 2020
Aung Htein and Zaung (Ponnagyun) — A local man was reportedly injured when an artillery shell landed near Letwei Sartaik village in Ponnagyun...
April 6, 2020
Burma News International (BNI) sent an open letter to the president and state counselor to withdraw all charges against several editors accused of...
Photo by – ထုင်ႉႁူၺ်ႈလီ/ Muse Gate
April 4, 2020
NANG SENG NOM — Both official and unofficial border gates between the northern Shan State townships of Muse and Namkham and China have been closed...
April 4, 2020
Sai Wansai — The Karen National Union (KNU) and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), the former a nationwide ceasefire agreement-signatory...
April 4, 2020
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has criticized a Burma Army demand that it terminate its relationship with the Arakan Army (AA) as the...
April 4, 2020
China has implemented a complete shutdown of its border gates with Burma since April 1, local sources told NMG. All border gates in northern Shan...
April 4, 2020
To prevent the spread of Covid-19, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) closed several of its checkpoints along the Chinese border. “We aren’t...
Durians from Mon State (Farmer)
April 4, 2020
Plantation owners in Ye Township are experiencing plummeting prices of fruits such as durian, mangosteen, pineapple and melons. Due to a suspension...
Myanmar nationals wearing facemasks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
April 4, 2020
Thant Myint-U — Myanmar, like the entire world, is facing not only an unprecedented health crisis, but an unprecedented economic crisis as well...