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February 27, 2019
The father of a Myanmar high school student hospitalized in restive Rakhine state’s Kyauktaw township days after being detained for three hours by...
An elephant at Nag Laik Elephant Conservation Based Tourism Camp in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
February 27, 2019
Director Thein Toe from Yangon Region Forest Department said that the newly enacted Biodiversity and Protection of Wildlife Sanctuary Law could give...
Govt Peace Commission, Northern Military Alliance Hold Talks in China
February 27, 2019
Ethnic armed group representatives reportedly left the four-hour meeting without ‘concrete results.’ A delegation from the Burmese government’s peace...
February 27, 2019
A convoy of military vehicles left the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina for the northern town of Putao on Tuesday morning, immediately following...
February 27, 2019
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has offered plots of land in Kachin State’s Mogaung Township to those who support them in Burma’s...
February 26, 2019
Alarming numbers of dead fish in a Waingmaw Township creek are not due to pesticides from nearby tissue culture banana plantations, representatives...
A file photo of an Arakan Army unit from the group’s Facebook page.
February 26, 2019
Nearly a dozen Myanmar civilians have been missing in the township of Mrauk-U in restive Rakhine state since a mid-month flare-up in fighting between...
February 26, 2019
The new parliamentary joint committee tasked with amending Myanmar’s constitution will review 48 basic principles of the charter, including the...
February 26, 2019
A Tatmadaw negotiation team met with representatives from Shan State Progress Party (SSPP/SSA) at Paunglaung Guest House in Nay Pyi Taw Command...
Myanmar military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
February 25, 2019
Myanmar’s military has filed a complaint with the country’s press council against a respected Japanese daily newspaper for publishing an interview...
Fifteen Karenni Refugee Families Return to Burma
February 25, 2019
Fifty-nine refugees from Thailand’s Karenni Camp No. 1 in Ban Mai Nai Soi went back to Burma on Thursday. The refugees—38 adults and 21 children from...
February 25, 2019
As the constitutional amendment joint committee focusing on constitutional reform which was formed with 45 members are going to meet and program...