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June 28, 2016
A Karen National Union controlled checkpoint is fuelling tension between the Burma Army in southern Burma.
June 28, 2016
Burmese border guard police (BGP) brutally killed a fisherman and seriously injured two on June 21 at night while they were fishing at the Khayan...
June 28, 2016
The Karen National Union’s Taw Oo [Taungoo] district burned seized methamphetamine pills worth 400 million Kyat (around USD $350,000) in an event to...
Saw Isaac Po, JMC-U vice chairman 1, Photo: KNU HQ
June 28, 2016
Union level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JCMC) members have discussed forming state-level committees in Kayin and Mon States, state media...
June 28, 2016
Khun Kya Bu The Memoirs of Khun Kya Bu of Hsipaw Signatory to the Panglong Agreement. Foreword These memoirs, originally in Burmese, took a period of...
June 28, 2016
A coalition of 35 civil society organizations in Burma has issued a statement calling for the National League for Democracy-led government to suspend...
Opium poppies ready to be processed into heroine at a poppy field near Pekon township, southern Shan State, Myanmar, 20 December 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 27, 2016
In an effort to raise awareness and strengthen Myanmar’s response to the production, trafficking and use of illicit drugs, United Nations Office on...
June 27, 2016
A prosthetic leg production center has been set up in Klo Yaw Lay area of Hlaingbwe Township on June 20, with the coordination of Kawthoolei...
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burma’s State Counselor and the leader of the ruling party the National League for Democracy (NLD).
June 27, 2016
A new civilian government headed by the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Htin Kyaw, took office in March...
World Refugee Day celebrations at Mae La Refugee Camp, 20 June 2016
June 27, 2016
Refugees at Mae La, the largest Burmese refugee camp in Thailand, have urged the Thai and Burmese governments not to forcibly send refugees on the...
Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Mae La refugee camp in 2012 (Photo:Karen News)
June 27, 2016
Thailand’s Prime Minister, General Prayut Chan-o-cha was reported as saying that the Burma government needs more time to put in place a process to...
June 27, 2016
A delegation of Burma News Intentional (BNI) recently met the Union Information Minister Dr. Pe Myint in Nay Pyi Taw and discussed various issues...