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February 13, 2019
The road between Eindu and Kawkareik is in a bad way – it turned to mud in the wet season and to dust in the dry season. The upgrading works for the...
February 12, 2019
As Burma Army troops enter southern Chin State’s Matupi Township, members of ethnic Chin political parties say they are worried that fighting will...
February 12, 2019
The road linking Kalay in Sagaing Region to Chin State’s Falam and Hakha townships will undergo changes with loans from the World Bank, according to...
February 12, 2019
Speaker of the Chin State parliament Zo Bawi said that the state government is considering promoting Paletwa and Tedim from townships to districts...
February 11, 2019
An inspection committee has begun investigating the antimony metal refinery plants in Mon State’s capital city, Mawlamyine, following the complaints...
February 11, 2019
A local report on the impacts of Chinese tissue culture banana plantations in Kachin State’s Waingmaw Township launched in Myitkyina on Thursday. The...
February 11, 2019
A coordination meeting was held February 8 in parliament for forming a joint committee with 45 members to amend the 2008 Constitution speedily but it...
February 11, 2019
Police officers arrested dozens of protestors in eastern Myanmar who now face charges of unlawful assembly, an activist leader said on Friday, after...
Myanmar soldiers, arriving back from the unrest area in Rakhine state, march in Sittwe city, capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar, 31 October 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
February 11, 2019
The U.N. refugee agency says it is worried by reports of people fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar's southern Chin State and Rakhine State,...
February 11, 2019
Kachin Political Leaders Meet Norwegian Delegation in Myitkyina on Feb. 8, 2019 In a meeting with Norway’s deputy head of mission to Burma on Friday...
February 11, 2019
A delegation from the Burmese government will meet with four members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed groups this week, according to the...
February 8, 2019
The former Kachin State minister of natural resources and the environment was appointed the chairperson of the state’s ethnic affairs committee in...