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December 15, 2015
Three hundred internally displaced people (IDPs) from Pinso Village in Paletwa Township need immediate emergency aid because there is a food shortage...
December 15, 2015
A report on the 8 November elections in Chin State issued by the Horn Bill Organisation (HBO) election watch group on 5 December said that of 273,000...
December 15, 2015
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) ethnic alliance temporarily suspended the Chin National Front (CNF) and the Pa-O National Liberation...
December 15, 2015
Mya Wun Yan — U Khine Nyi Nyi Kyaw, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate in Shan State in last month's election, has formally objected to...
December 15, 2015
Mya Wun Yan — This past weekend local civic groups and the City Development Committee joined hands with recently elected parlimentary candidates from...
December 14, 2015
Candles were lit jointly by ambassadors from the United States, Israel, Canada, leaders from National League of Democracy (NLD) and Parliament in...
December 14, 2015
The Union Minister U Aung Min urged for the development of a flexible nationwide ceasefire political framework to make it easy for the new government...
December 14, 2015
Over half of the eligible voters in Mudon and Kyaikmayaw townships in Mon State, did not vote in the 8 November 2015 elections, according to their...
December 14, 2015
Local authorities have erected security checkpoints to search vehicles in Mong Hsu, Kesi, Laikha, Namzang, and Loilem Townships in central and...
December 14, 2015
Two Chin sub-tribes erected a pillar of reconciliation on 25 November to show that they have no hard feeling over wrongs committed over 100 years ago.
Loong Sarm, the farmer killed by Burma Army soldiers at a gold mine in eastern Shan State in October (Photo: Shan Farmers’ Network)
December 14, 2015
Over 300 farmers from 18 townships attended a memorial ceremony on 7 December for a farmer shot and killed by Burma Army soldiers at an eastern Shan...
December 14, 2015
Thuta Linn — The National League for Democracy’s (NLD) chairperson Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has instructed newly elected members of Parliament to use the...