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February 28, 2019
Union Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe and Gen. To Lam sign the bilateral agreement at the 3rd Ministerial Meeting on Security and Law Enforcement Matters in...
February 28, 2019
The Kachin armed group called findings in Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 “groundless facts.” The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) have rejected...
February 27, 2019
Employees of a Chinese joint venture company assaulted two journalists for publishing an unfavourable story about its activities with a banana tissue...
February 27, 2019
More than 1,000 people participated in a march in the Sagaing Region town of Kalay on Monday supporting calls to amend Burma’s military-drafted 2008...
Photo SSPP / SSA: February 25, 2019 The government’s military delegation meets Shan State / Shan State Army at Naypyidaw regional command office
February 27, 2019
The Shan armed group participates in informal peace talks with the Burma Army’s negotiation team in Naypyidaw. Representatives of the Burma Army and...
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...