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June 27, 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee concluded her Arakan visit on Thursday. Her two-day visit to the western State of...
June 27, 2016
Thew days reports were dominated by the visit of United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee; the appalling report of United Nations...
The MOC 19 picks up the brothers-led gang in a truck (Photo: Janu Mon)
June 27, 2016
An armed group led by two brothers, Nai Lwin and Nai Saung, will soon surrender their weaponry to the Tatmadaw, according to locals in Ye Township,...
Ibrahim, 67, looks around inside the destroyed mosque at Thuye Tha Mein village of Waw township in Bago Province, Myanmar, 24 June 2016. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
June 27, 2016
The Myanmar authorities must undertake a prompt, independent, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into the violent destruction of...
Pressworker at courtroom, Rangoon
June 27, 2016
Four press workers were Imprisoning for printing a particular term “Rohingya” in a 2016 calendar demonstrates the lack of freedom of expression in...
June 27, 2016
U Hla Myint, the Maungdaw Township admin officer, ordered all concerned villages admin officers not to issue any renovation or new building or house...
Sao Kya Seng, Saophalong of Hsipaw State, and Mahadhevi Thusandi
June 23, 2016
The 1962 coup d’ėtat staged by General Ne Win ended an era of saophalong and mahadevi (ruling princes and princesses) in the Shan states, ushering in...
June 23, 2016
Villagers in Karen State are less than ecstatic that more than 232 acres of farmland, confiscated by the Burma Army and other government officials...
Hong Sar/Mizzima
June 23, 2016
The European Union held a press conference at Sule Shangri-La Hotel on 22 June 2016 to introduce its new policy on Myanmar called "Elements for an EU...
June 23, 2016
The Mon State Government have been supplied with UNICEF-funded Mon textbooks aimed at state-run schools across Mon State and other areas in Mon...
June 23, 2016
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) called on the Burma Army to stop offensives and military expansion in ethnic areas before holding the 21st Century...
The view of Maungdaw main Road
June 22, 2016
A working group of the Central Committee for Implementation of Peace and Development in Rakhine State, held a meeting with Rohingyas for organizing...