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May 10, 2019
Internally displaced people in Miza village, Paletwa Township are subject to compulsory forced labor by Myanmar military soldiers who offer them a...
May 9, 2019
The two Myanmar based Reuters journalists, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, charged under and jailed for breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act...
May 7, 2019
A new Kachin party plans to contest the 2020 General Election after successfully registering its name with the Union Election Commission (UEC). "Our...
May 7, 2019
Members of the Kachin public have planned a protest for Tuesday in Hpakant, Kachin State against the “excessive extraction” of jade from the area...
May 7, 2019
Ko Nay Win San, a chief reporter of Rakhine’s Sittwe-based Development Media Group (DMG) is scheduled to be questioned again at Sittwe Police Station...
The Irrawaddy Burmese-language editor Ye Ni. Photo: Ye Ni/Facebook
April 26, 2019
Myanmar's military should drop its criminal defamation case against independent news outlet The Irrawaddy over its coverage of the conflict in the...
April 26, 2019
(ICRC relief team distributing relief items to the IDPs at Ahtet Myat Hlae Village’s IDP Camp in Ponnagyun Township) DMG Interview with Ms. Dena...
April 26, 2019
An environmental group said authorities aren't doing enough to address the problem. Two people are reported missing since April 23 after a landslide...
April 26, 2019
A Burmese military tank is temporarily stop on Mandalay-Lashio road on April 25, 2019 Fighting happened in advance of an upcoming peace meeting...
April 26, 2019
Members of the WLB say that they have been threatened for speaking out on rights violations involving the Tatmadaw. Representatives of the Women’s...
Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
April 26, 2019
Myanmar’s army said on Wednesday that it had captured “seven or eight” outposts of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Shan state,...
April 26, 2019
Three Northern Alliances have suggested that they will have to resort to do what they should do “as an alliance” if the Myanmar Army keeps launching...