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Opium poppies ready to be processed into heroine at a poppy field near Pekon township, southern Shan State, Myanmar, 20 December 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 27, 2016
In an effort to raise awareness and strengthen Myanmar’s response to the production, trafficking and use of illicit drugs, United Nations Office on...
June 27, 2016
A prosthetic leg production center has been set up in Klo Yaw Lay area of Hlaingbwe Township on June 20, with the coordination of Kawthoolei...
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burma’s State Counselor and the leader of the ruling party the National League for Democracy (NLD).
June 27, 2016
A new civilian government headed by the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Htin Kyaw, took office in March...
World Refugee Day celebrations at Mae La Refugee Camp, 20 June 2016
June 27, 2016
Refugees at Mae La, the largest Burmese refugee camp in Thailand, have urged the Thai and Burmese governments not to forcibly send refugees on the...
Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Mae La refugee camp in 2012 (Photo:Karen News)
June 27, 2016
Thailand’s Prime Minister, General Prayut Chan-o-cha was reported as saying that the Burma government needs more time to put in place a process to...
June 27, 2016
A delegation of Burma News Intentional (BNI) recently met the Union Information Minister Dr. Pe Myint in Nay Pyi Taw and discussed various issues...
June 27, 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee concluded her Arakan visit on Thursday. Her two-day visit to the western State of...
June 27, 2016
Thew days reports were dominated by the visit of United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee; the appalling report of United Nations...
The MOC 19 picks up the brothers-led gang in a truck (Photo: Janu Mon)
June 27, 2016
An armed group led by two brothers, Nai Lwin and Nai Saung, will soon surrender their weaponry to the Tatmadaw, according to locals in Ye Township,...
Ibrahim, 67, looks around inside the destroyed mosque at Thuye Tha Mein village of Waw township in Bago Province, Myanmar, 24 June 2016. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
June 27, 2016
The Myanmar authorities must undertake a prompt, independent, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into the violent destruction of...
Pressworker at courtroom, Rangoon
June 27, 2016
Four press workers were Imprisoning for printing a particular term “Rohingya” in a 2016 calendar demonstrates the lack of freedom of expression in...
June 27, 2016
U Hla Myint, the Maungdaw Township admin officer, ordered all concerned villages admin officers not to issue any renovation or new building or house...