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January 7, 2020
Min Tun — President U Win Myint urged all national races to unite and participate in efforts to build a peaceful, democratic federal union and to...
December 23, 2019
The Northern Alliance proposed a plan to release detainees held by both sides in its conflict with the Burma Army during its latest meeting with the...
December 23, 2019
A group of social activists are planning to demonstrate in Yangon on 24 December to demand the government for restoration of internet services in...
NMSP military base in Palaing Japan. (photo: NMSP)
December 23, 2019
In an effort to resolve the conflict between the Myanmar army (Tatmadaw) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP), the NMSP is continuing its efforts to...
December 23, 2019
Forget the heady and romantic dream that marriage may conjure up. It is impossible not to feel sorry when the heart-breaking stories of young women...
December 23, 2019
Police officials says arrests have been made in the case of a teenager trafficked in late November by a relative from a tea shop in Mandalay and...
Government delegation and ten Ethnic Armed Organizations hold a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon. Photo: MNA
December 23, 2019
The Government delegation and Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement -Signatories (NCA-S) held a preliminary coordination meeting yesterday at the National...
December 23, 2019
Representatives of the Burmese government and the four-member Northern Alliance discussed the possibility of releasing detainees held by both sides...
A joint press conference of KBC and Nippon at KBC office in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State on Dec. 21, 2019.
December 23, 2019
The Kachin Humanitarian Concern Committee (KHCC) is preparing to resettle a total of more than 3,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from 10...
 Dr. Manam Tu Ja of KSPP leader (left) and Bawk Ja of UNFDP leader (right) at office of Kachin Nationals Consultative Assembly in Myitkyina on Dec. 20, 2019.
December 23, 2019
The Union Nationalities Federal Democracy Party (UNFDP), a political party based in Kachin State, merged with the Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP)...
Soldiers from the Arakan Army / Photo - AA
December 23, 2019
Fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army may intensify in Arakan State and the conflict zone could widen, the AA said in a statement...
December 23, 2019
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi used a recent speech to ask whether it was necessary for non-state armed groups to continue to hold arms and...