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November 6, 2024
CDM Participants Try to Adjust to Life in Liberated Karen State Area
November 5, 2024
KNU Kills 16 Junta Soldiers, Captures 17 in Hpapun Town
November 4, 2024
Junta Airstrike Kills Three in Naungcho Township, Shan State
January 3, 2018
Overseas Karen youths observe border situation to provide assistance
Karen migrant youths living abroad including the United States, Norway and the Netherlands, and local Karen youths are cooperating in an observation...
January 3, 2018
Overseas Karen youths observe border situation to provide assistance
Karen migrant youths living abroad including the United States, Norway, the Netherlands and local Karen youths are cooperating in an observation...
January 2, 2018
KNU calls for negotiation before electing new village administrators
The Karen National Union (KNU)’s Win-Yay Township in Dooplaya District released a notification to the local authorities on December 29 to negotiate...
January 2, 2018
Over 200 locals go to 28th traditional first harvest ceremony in Win-Yaw...
More than 200 local residents took part in the celebration of the 28th Karen traditional new crop harvesting season at Dai-Lut-Ta-Mo-Wong Village...
DKBA commander-in-chief General Saw Mo Shay gave a keynote address.
December 24, 2017
Mutual trust is crucial to maintaining nationwide ceasefire, says DKBA...
Mutual trust plays a key role in the delay to signing the Nationwide Ceasefiire Agreement (NCA), said Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)’s...
December 12, 2017
Kayin State MPs hold first public forum
Elected representatives from Kayin (Karen) State held an open discussion this weekend, the first such public interaction organized since the...
December 7, 2017
Mae Tao Clinic to persist despite funding cuts: Dr Cynthia Maung
The Mae Tao Clinic will continue to provide healthcare services along the Thai-Myanmar border despite cuts in international aid, the clinic’s founder...
December 5, 2017
Clogged stream dispute leaves Kayin State officials with a sensitive...
Kayin (Karen) State farmers have had enough of a silt-clogged stream preventing them from utilizing around 100 acres of paddy field for the past five...
December 4, 2017
Statue of Karen hero finds temporary home in KNU office
A statue of Karen ethnic icon Saw Ba U Gyi will find temporary shelter in the Karen National Union (KNU)’s Kya-in Seikkyi township office, after...
November 30, 2017
Bago Region to host a Karen New Year festival
Bago Region’s Karen New Year festival will be held at a football stadium in Minhla township from December 16 to 18 this year, according to an...
November 30, 2017
MPs to lead Karen New Year festival in Nay Pyi Taw
Karen lawmakers will commemorate the 2757th Karen New Year Day with a festival in Nay Pyi Taw for the second year in a row. The festival will be held...
November 28, 2017
Lawyers meet to share perspectives on redrafting a federal constitution
What are the laws that underpin a federal Union? What are the legal precedents for a federal constitution? These questions and more formed the basis...