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December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
December 28, 2025
Voters in eastern Shan State cast ballots amid security conc...
Shan Herald Agency for News
Chief of Arakan Army named General Twan Mrat Naing
January 23, 2019
Is the armed conflict in Arakan State a civil war?
Very recently, the Tatmadaw’s information team warned the media and newsmen against using the term ‘civil war’ to refer to country’s domestic...
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The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener is visiting Rakhine State on 22 January and 24 January. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
January 23, 2019
United Nations special envoy visits Rakhine State
Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Myanmar, arrives to Sittwe airport Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 22...
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January 23, 2019
Myanmar to establish coast guard
The Myanmar government will establish a coast guard force to safeguard its 2,080-km-long coastline and territorial waters, Xinhua reported. The new...
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Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
January 22, 2019
Elimination of corruption is government’s objective, State C...
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that elimination of corruption was her government’s objective. She was speaking at the opening ceremony of...
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January 21, 2019
ARSA terrorists ambush police vehicle
A vehicle carrying border guard police was ambushed by ARSA terrorists in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, on 16 January, and six police were injured in the...
Shan Herald Agency for News
January 21, 2019
Hundreds of Mongpan IDPs ‘Return Home in Fear’
The IDPs had taken refuge in a Wa-controlled area, and were reportedly ordered by the Burma Army to go back to Mongpan. More than 300 internally...
Shan Herald Agency for News
January 21, 2019
SNLD Calls for Investigation Into NLD Conduct in Mandalay By...
The SNLD has asked the UEC to look into the process by which the Shan affairs minister for the region was elected. The Shan Nationalities League for...
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January 21, 2019
Tatmadaw: State Counsellor, President’s Office Gave Order to...
The military’s True News Information Team described the Arakan Army as ‘just an insurgent group.’ State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi gave...
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January 21, 2019
First ever Rakhine investment festival to be held in Ngapali
An investment festival to attract investors for the development of Rakhine State will be held at Ngapali beach. This festival will be the first ever...
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Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: EPA
January 21, 2019
UN rep voices concern over attacks, aid restrictions
The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called...
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January 18, 2019
Kachin Political Parties, Civil Society Oppose Myitsone Dam
‘This is the people’s desire. We won’t change our policy on the Myitsone hydropower dam,’ the Kachin Democratic Party chairperson said. Ethnic Kachin...
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(File) Myanmar boy wearing a white shirt (R), who was discharged from Myanmar army, loads a bag on his shoulder as he walks near a military man at a gate of military compound - 18 January 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 18, 2019
More than 1,700 child soldiers reunited with their parents
More than 1,700 child soldiers in Myanmar have been reunited with their parents, and about 800 military officers and other army personnel who...