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State Counsellor attends 1st meeting of Steering Committee for Implementation of BRI. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
February 20, 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could bring opportunities to Myanmar and the region, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a...
Officials attend a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the NCA signing in Nay Pyi Taw on October 15. Aung Khant/The Myanmar TimesOfficials attend a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the NCA signing in Nay Pyi Taw on October 15. Aung Khant/The Myanmar Times
February 20, 2019
In the second in a two-part interview with RCSS/SSA Secretary (2) Col Sai Nguen, SHAN discusses Burma’s various ceasefires.
AsiaNews : Thousands of Buddhist residents of Arakan State
February 20, 2019
When the authorities consisting police and immigration officials detained and interrogated a large number of returnee monks from Sittwe, Arakan State...
February 20, 2019
A secretary in the Chin National Front (CNF) has said that intensified fighting between the Burmese military and the Arakan Army (AA) could be...
February 20, 2019
India has deployed members of its security forces to its border with Burma due to intensifying clashes between the Burma Army and the Arakan Army (AA...
February 20, 2019
The Hakha-based Community Care for Emergency Response and Rehabilitation (CCERR) has announced it will provide assistance to internally displaced...
UK agency calls for most vulnerable to be given a say in Myanmar’s future
February 20, 2019
British Secretary of State for International Development, Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt arrives at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet...
February 20, 2019
Myanmar has condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, NDTV reported. In a...
February 20, 2019
Both RCSS and SSPP blame one another for placing the mine in the area. The headman of Nam Maw Lon village in northern Shan State’s Hsipaw Township...
February 20, 2019
The first scheduled informal meeting between the Burmese government’s National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) and members of the Northern...
Photo of Feb. 16, 2019 shows Chinese tissue culture bananas in Aung May Thit village, Waingmaw township, Kachin State
February 19, 2019
Locals say they are alarmed by the unusual number and variety of dead fish in the Nam Myin Hka creek near a tissue culture banana plantation in...
USDP representatives discuss the constitutional amendments (Photo: MNA)
February 19, 2019
One of Myanmar’s major political parties, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), offered to have an official meeting with the newly-...