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Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA). Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
June 2, 2016
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) had a meeting on 1June in Chiang Mai...
June 2, 2016
The Nationalities Brotherhood Federation (NBF), an alliance of ethnic political parties, released a statement calling on the Burmese Government to...
Ethnic Organisations Workshop in Chiang Mai
June 2, 2016
Draft ethnic policies to assist in the upcoming political dialogue were finalised at an ethnic organisations workshop held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on...
June 2, 2016
The new peace negotiating team created by the NLD-led government will have an informal meeting with the ethnic armed organisations that did not sign...
Internally Displaced Villagers
June 2, 2016
Residents from nine villages in Hsipaw Township, Shan State who fled their homes in early May due to fighting claim that their livestock was stolen...
June 2, 2016
Over 100 representatives from a range of political parties and civil society organisations in Shan State attended a meeting in Shan State’s capital...
A security personnel walks past European countries flags during the opening ceremony of European Union office in Yangon, Myanmar, 28 April 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
June 2, 2016
The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European Commission yesterday adopted a Joint Communication that sets out a...
June 2, 2016
The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English...
June 2, 2016
Local monks and the Pyar Taung Area Development Association will put up posters in 20 villages objecting to the Mawlamyine Cement Limited (MCL) coal-...
Miss Universe in Chin State - showing off the fabrics. Photo: Moe Sat Wine/Facebook
June 1, 2016
Twenty-eight-year-old Cing Zeel Niang was born in Chin State but left home at an early age to attend boarding school in Pyin Oo Lwin and later...
June 1, 2016
A recently completed film made for European TV, Twilight Over Burma, based on the true story of Prince Sao Kya Seng, the ruler of Hsipaw and his...
June 1, 2016
Mon communities in Burma and abroad gathered on Sunday to remember the fall of Hongsawatoi Kingdom.