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Dr. Tin Myo Win. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
June 15, 2016
Preparatory Subcommittee-2 for the Union Peace Conference (21st Century Panglong) is set to meet a delegation for political negotiation (DPN) from...
June 15, 2016
Leaders from sixteen Mon associations and various individuals have urged the Mon State Chief Minister to review programs providing household...
 Pu Zing Cung, the Chin National Front Chairman
June 14, 2016
The Chin National Front Chairman, Pu Zing Cung, said that comprehensive political dialogue and national peace will not happen until all ethnic armed...
Students studying at a Mon literature summer class
June 14, 2016
Government schools wanting to teach Mon literature have had the deadline for submitting their lists of Mon Literature teachers and their students to...
A Buddhist nun walks along a road near an ancient pagoda at Mrauk U, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 26 October 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
June 14, 2016
A humanitarian organization, Indonesia Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MERC), will join hands with the Indonesian Buddhist Representatives (...
June 14, 2016
At least four women were drowned in the recent wave of flood at Web Kyit village southern Arakan. Heavy downpour was reported in the western coast of...
June 14, 2016
Burma News International (BNI) urges the Myanmar government at Nay Pyidaw to review the case related to a senior journalist working for British...
June 14, 2016
The Panglong Agreement was signed on February 12, in 1947 by Kachin, Chin and Shan leaders partnering with the General Aung San-led Burmese [Barmar]...
June 14, 2016
Mon State has regained its top-place in university exam admission results boasting a 39.37% success rate in 2016. The results were announced on...
Photo: Global New Light of Myanmar
June 13, 2016
An agreement has been reached on the revision of the framework for political dialogue at the meeting of the Preparatory Subcommittee-1 for the Union...
June 13, 2016
The key words of house speaker are mutual understanding, trust and respect, in order to be able to amend the constitution. Let us look at them word...
June 13, 2016
As the Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and over a hundred Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local and international, called for peace...