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February 5, 2016
Mizoram State’s Information & Public Relations Minister Lal Thanzara told the 124th anniversary Chin-Lushai Conference held in Mizzoram, India...
Hai Pa Refugee Camp
February 5, 2016
About 1,500 people displaced by fighting now staying in Hai Pa IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in Mong Hsu Township, Central Shan State...
February 4, 2016
Five Karen political parties will merge into one to better help establish ethnic states that are based on ethnic equality and self-determination,...
February 4, 2016
Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 7 will start running the first KNU highway express bus route when its bus company, Doe Meik Swe, starts operating...
February 3, 2016
The media was forbidden from covering any parliamentary sessions of the first Karen State Hluttaw (parliament) during its five-year term from 2010 to...
February 2, 2016
Arsenic above the safe levels permitted for human consumption has been found in groundwater in Arakan State and Ayeyawady and Bago divisions.
The Arakan state parliament building/ Photo by Narinjara
February 2, 2016
The new Rakhine (Arakan) State Parliament will convene on 8 February 2016, according to the Rakhine State Parliament Office in Sittwe.
Protesters hold pictures of their abducted relatives during a protest in Mongwi village in Namkham Township. (Photo: S.Y.)
February 1, 2016
Over 250 residents protested in northern Shan State’s Namkham Township on Wednesday demanding the release of twelve civilians who were allegedly...
January 29, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 32 Burmese Rohingyas and one Bangladeshi human trafficker trying to enter Bangladesh at Shapuridip in the...
Search for Aluminium and Titanium in Arakan Coastal Sand
January 28, 2016
A Burmese company, backed by the Chinese government is preparing to test mineral sands on the Arakan coast to see if they can be used to produce...
January 28, 2016
Newly elected Mon State members of parliament (MPs) met with their predecessors and the outbound Mon State Hluttaw Chairman at Mon State’s Hluttaw (...
January 27, 2016
rakan State Chief Minister U Mra Aung has said that Arakanese nationals who were displaced by fighting between the Burma Army and the Arakan Army,...