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December 29, 2025
Each polling station in Myawaddy has fewer than 1,000 voters
December 28, 2025
Election Day marred by gunfire and artillery blasts in Katha
December 28, 2025
Kale Town experiences unusually quiet election day
Mizzima
December 23, 2015
NGO raps ‘brazen bid for presidential immunity’
Myanmar’s parliament should reject a proposed law that would shield former presidents from prosecution for crimes committed during their terms in...
Independent Mon News Agency
December 23, 2015
More than 330 Crimes Committed in Ye This Year
More than 330 cries were reported in Ye Township, Mon State for all of 2015 according to the Ye Township Police Chief's Office.
Shan Herald Agency for News
U San Yu Kyaw- the First Secretary and Consul of the Chiang Mai-based Myanmar Consulate-General
December 23, 2015
NGOs Demand Better Conditions for Burmese Migrant Workers
A coalition of NGOs in Thailand publicly called on the Burmese government to better address hardships faced by migrant workers in Thailand on 18...
Khonumthung News
December 23, 2015
Number of Recorded Chin Tribes Revised
A Chin National Action Committee on Census (CNACC) statement said that the government figures from the 2014 National Census that state there are 53...
Kaladan Press
December 23, 2015
Burma - Bangladesh Border Tension
Bangladesh lodged a protest with Burma after Burmese security forces killed a Bangladeshi villager and injured another on 14 and 15 December in what...
Mizzima
Damaged Buddha statues in Tarlay on 26 March 2011 after the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit in eastern Shan State.
December 23, 2015
INGOs push disaster risk education in Myanmar
With earthquakes, flooding and cyclones an ever-present danger, the importance of DRR or Disaster Risk Reduction education is growing in importance...
Mizzima
Polio alert by WHO. Here is a measles vaccination initiative. Photo: Measles Initiative
December 23, 2015
Two cases of polio found in Rakhine State: WHO
The World Health Organization has issued an alert that two cases of polio have been found in Rakhine State, according to a press release on December...
Mizzima
December 22, 2015
Displaced persons in Shan State reluctant to go home
Although clashes between the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and government troops have subsided, about 2,000 displaced persons who fled from the...
Mizzima
December 22, 2015
EU to give USD 76 million in assistance for food security an...
The EU announced on December 21 that they would provide Euro 70 million (US$ 76.09 million) to Myanmar for promotion of food security, the rule of...
Independent Mon News Agency
UNFC Vice-Chairman Nai Hongsar (Photo: Internet)
December 22, 2015
UNFC: Flawed NCA Can't Bring Peace
Burma will have no peace while the Hluttaw [parliament] continues working on a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) signed by only eight ethnic armed...
Mizzima
December 21, 2015
Parliament joint affairs committee recommends car import red...
The Parliament Joint affairs committee for Projects and Financial Development has suggested,in a report submitted to the Union parliament, that the...
Independent Mon News Agency
December 21, 2015
Handgun and Bullets seized at Ward Administrator's Hous...
A raid on the home of U Hla Htein, the Ward 1 administrator of Kawsar Town in Ye Township, Mon State uncovered a revolver and ammunition according to...