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August 17, 2016
The Carter Center, based in the US, has advised Burma that in order to achieve a full democracy that will enshrine the rights of all its citizens,...
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi (C) looks on as she and members of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) attend a meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 15 August 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
August 17, 2016
State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi left for China today at the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang.
Members of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) attend a meeting in Naypyitaw on August 16, 2016. Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
August 17, 2016
The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) continued its second-day meeting in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday with discussions on approved agendas for...
August 17, 2016
Arakan government has recently formed a screening committee to study the damages caused by the Chinese Oil & Gas Pipeline Project in Ann Township...
Photo by SHAN- Yawnghwe Palace entrance
August 17, 2016
Sao Haymar Thaike, the daughter of Burma’s first president, Sao Shwe Thaike, has spoken out against a plan to convert Yawnghwe Palace compound into a...
August 17, 2016
Lately the Chinese charm offensive in the new era of Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD regime has been visibly in full swing.
The first JICM meeting, 16 October 2015. (Photo: burmalibrary.org)
August 17, 2016
In response to the 8 signatory ethnic armed organization (EAO)s’ formal request on 11 August, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will soon be...
August 17, 2016
The winner of the 2015 Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award, is Sa Shine, a youth educator from the Hpa-an Youth Network. Sa Shine was presented with...
T Khun Myat. Photo: Nay Thar
August 17, 2016
Myitsone project study and review commission Chairman T Khun Myat told people not to worry about the Myitsone dam construction project.
NLD Chairperson/Facebook
August 17, 2016
For State Councillor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, the upcoming visit to China (17-19 August) will be the most significant foreign trip ever...
August 17, 2016
The Chaungzone Township office of the All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP), one of two main ethnic Mon political parties, has decided it would...
The framework for political dialogue meeting in Rangoon (Photo – Hla Maung Shwe’s Facebook)
August 16, 2016
Outcomes of the recent meeting on reviewing the framework for political dialogue in Rangoon were submitted to the Union Peace Dialogue Joint...