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Hostels built for Chinese workers near the Myitsone Dam site, photographed in January 2012. Photo: Mizzima
August 15, 2016
The Myanmar government has formed a commission to examine the Ayeyarwady Myitsone up-stream river basin hydropower projects in Kachin State to review...
Photo: Phan Foundation
August 15, 2016
The Phan Foundation has announced that the winner of the 2015 Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award has gone to Sa Shine, a community worker in Hpa-an,...
Meeting of the Mon National Conference organizing committee (Photo: MNA)
August 15, 2016
The All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP), one of two predominant ethnic Mon political parties, has decided it will not attend the 8th Mon National...
Mon State Police Chief Bo Bo Oo is addressing a speech (Photo: MNA)
August 15, 2016
Out of Mon State’s 10 townships, Thaton Township experiences the highest rate of gambling. 73 gambling cases took place across Mon State, between...
August 13, 2016
True to her conviction and Aung San Suu Kyi determined to keep up with her self-drawn timeline, Union Peace Conference (UPC) will be held on 31st...
August 13, 2016
U Aung Htoo is the principal of Federal Law Academy situated in Mai Ja Yang Town, a controlled area of Kachin Independent Organization, in Kachin...
August 13, 2016
The secretary of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has said that their participation at the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC...
Photo – Welcome to PEACE
August 11, 2016
The Nippon Foundation has withdrawn plans to build 100 low-cost housing units for refugees that will be resettled to Tanintharyi Region from Thai...
August 11, 2016
Although the government plans to go ahead with the Union Peace Conference (also called the 21st Century Panglong Conference) the ethnic armed groups...
Group plants mangrove trees along Mon State coast (Photo: MNA)
August 11, 2016
More than 400 local residents were joined by government officials to plant over 2,600 mangrove trees on coastal land in southern Mon State.
Photo by SHAN: Migrant representatives receive cheque from the Chiang Mai province governor Pawin Chamniprasart at Chiang Mai provincial hall.
August 11, 2016
Some seven months after being laid off by the Perfetto Limited Partnership Company in northern Thailand, 100 Burmese migrant workers have finally...
August 11, 2016
For the first time ever, BBC Burmese radio programmes will be rebroadcast by Myanmar’s state broadcaster Myanmar Athan (Myanmar Radio), thus...