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August 19, 2016
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a follow-up to a previous post, “‘Panglong Spirit’ under the 2008 Constitution,” which was written by Mael Raynaud as...
August 19, 2016
Karen students from village schools in Kungyangone Township in the Rangoon Region are to be taught their mother language, but outside official school...
Photo by SHRF- Residents in Mong Khur of Hsipaw Township staged a protest against Salween Dams on August 23, 2015.
August 19, 2016
Twenty-six Shan-based organizations on Wednesday sent an open letter to Burma’s State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, calling on her...
Locals at the vigil (Photo: MNA/Mon Htaw)
August 19, 2016
Over 800 participants, including locals and monks from Pyar-taung, Kyaikmayaw Township, held a vigil in hope to curb the coal-fired plant’s harmful...
August 18, 2016
The Mon State Education Office has given authority for township-level educational offices to appoint ethnic language teachers based on the needs of...
August 18, 2016
Organizers of the Mon National Conference said this year’s focus will be about unifying the Mon people for the 21st Century Panglong Conference (also...
August 18, 2016
Arakan is the only Burmese State using waterways widely for public transportation as its coastal location helps the initiative. But, there is...
August 18, 2016
Jade entrepreneurs have united to submit a signed proposal to the Union Government to suspend jade mining and jade exports with the aim of creating a...
August 18, 2016
The bodies of three local men have been discovered in shallow graves in Namtu Township. The cause of death is as yet unknown.
Students attend the opening ceremony of Tak Community College in Mae Sot.
August 17, 2016
A Thai foundation that provides support for community initiatives has opened a college for Burmese migrant students in the Thai border town Mae Sot...
UPDJC meeting (Photo – State Counsellor’s Office)
August 17, 2016
Members of the government led Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) have agreed to hold the Union Peace Conference (also called the 21st...
August 17, 2016
Residents of Shahtu Zup village located near where recent fighting between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has broken out are...