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November 14, 2024
Junta Shelling Injures Two Children in Kyaukkyi Township, Bago Region
November 14, 2024
Junta Using Its Soldiers’ Families as Human Shields
November 12, 2024
KNU Seizes Base Held by Myanmar Army for 70 Years
December 24, 2016
Territory, Natural Resources Dispute Fuels Fighting Between Karen and Mon...
Fighting between Karen and Mon soldiers over natural resources and control of territory resulted in one officer wounded by gunfire.
December 23, 2016
Karen Health Department and Villagers Set-Up Free Community Clinic
Medic Saw Baw Mu Say puts on his rubber gloves and says as he prepares to start cleaning a cut on a patients admitted to the Law Mu Thaw-Ler Mu Per...
December 23, 2016
HRW Blame Government Military for Burning Villages in Rakhine State – “...
The New York based Human Rights Watch have issued a report claiming that satellite imagery and on the ground interviews with refugees support...
December 19, 2016
Karen National Union Stops Kyaukgyi-Mu The’ Road Expansion
The expansion of the 20-mile-long dry season road connecting Kyaukyi – Mu-The’ village in the Pago (Pegu) region has been ordered to to stop by the...
December 19, 2016
Maimed by Landmines, Karen Villagers Join Soldiers to Commemorate World...
The International Day of Persons with Disability was celebrated for the first time in honor of Karen villagers and soldiers who lost limbs during...
December 15, 2016
Southern Myanmar Journalist Network Elects New Executive
The Southern Myanmar Journalist Network has elected a new Central Executive Committee with 15 working committee members, nine of whom were elected as...
December 14, 2016
KNU and Karen State Government Meet to Discuss Land Issues
The Karen National Union (KNU) met with officials from the Karen State Government to discuss cooperation on solving ongoing and future land issues on...
December 13, 2016
Dr Cynthia Maung Says Healthcare Still Needed on the Thai-Burma Border
Mae Tao Clinic founder Dr Cynthia Maung said that health organisations on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border, including the Mae Tao Clinic will...
December 12, 2016
Human Rights Abuses Push Karen Villagers Towards Health Crisis
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) released a report documenting human rights abuses on Karen villagers during fighting between the Democratic Karen...
December 12, 2016
Final Call for 2016 Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award Nominations
The Phan Foundation has issued a final call for nominations for the annual Padoh Mahn Sha Young Leader Award for 2016 – the closing date is December...
December 9, 2016
ASEAN Youths Form River Watch Network
Youths from seven Association of South East Asian countries (ASEAN) who recently participated in the Regional River Watch and Children’s Ecological...
December 8, 2016
KNU 16th Congress to Be Held in March 2017
The 16th Congress of the Karen National Union (KNU), which was originally scheduled for November before being postponed, will start on 14 March 2017.