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May 23, 2016
As part of its policy development intended to contribute to the peace process political negotiations, the Ethnic National Affairs Center (ENAC) held...
Disabled Sport Competition
May 23, 2016
For the first time, a sport event for people with disabilities was held on May 17 in Hpa-an Karen State. Organisers said the aim of the event was to...
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Myanmar Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (R) during the joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on 22 May 2016. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
May 23, 2016
During a press conference today in Nay Pyi Taw with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry, Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi called on the...
DB Country Director Winfried Wicklein, Hotels and Tourism Minister U Ohn Maung, and Tint Thwin, Director General of Hotels and Tourism (Photo: ADB).
May 23, 2016
The Asia Development Bank and the government inked an agreement for a USD $3 million grant to revitalise tourism jobs in Mon State on Tuesday [May 17...
Ambassador of Norway to Myanmar Ms Ann Ollestad. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
May 23, 2016
Norway has a long history of promoting political reform in Myanmar. In the following interview, Ambassador to Norway Ms Ann Ollestad, the only woman...
NCA Signatory Groups Workshop (IMNA)
May 20, 2016
Leaders of the eight ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) who signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) are holding a five-day political capacity...
May 20, 2016
Permission will soon be granted to interview Major Aung Phyo Myint, the Burma Army commander who many consider a key suspect in the murder of two...
May 19, 2016
The Burma Army attacked positions held by the Kachin Independence Army's (KIA)’s Battalion 27 with fighter jets in Mansi Township in south eastern...
May 19, 2016
The concerned authorities of Maungdaw Township has recently ordered the villagers living nearby the highway - to extend the highway-road of Maungdaw-...
May 19, 2016
A unit of the Burma Army that has been involved in a series of clashes with the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), stands...
May 19, 2016
Five workers from a New Mon State Party (NMSP) owned sheep farm on Kaw Kun Lon Island in Ye Township who were detained by the Burma Navy were...
May 18, 2016
Locals from Kalaw village to Kawsar town, in Kawsar Township, southern Mon State are calling for compensation for areas of their land taken by the...