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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
November 22, 2016
Karen Teaching Hospital To Open In 2017
The Karen Health and Welfare Department, a health service provider under the Karen National Union is planning that its teaching hospital, near...
November 21, 2016
Students Complete 30th KNLA Basic Medical Training Course
The 30th batch of students to pass Karen National Liberation Army’s (KNLA) Basic Medical Training course graduated at a ceremony held on 10 November...
November 21, 2016
Karen State Government to Discuss Child Registration
Eight health organisations from the Thai-Burma border, which have been providing birth certificates and documents to enable children to be properly...
November 18, 2016
Hundreds of Karen Protest Outside U.S. White House Calling for Continued...
Karen people living in the USA gathered in front of the White House in Washington DC to call for sanctions to be continued to be imposed on Burma...
The 15th KNU Congress, which was held in November 2012.
November 16, 2016
KNU’s 16th Congress Postponed Until March
The Karen National Union (KNU) Central Standing Committee [CSC} has decided to postpone the KNU’s 16th Congress from November 2016 till March 2017.
November 11, 2016
KNU and WWF sign Environmental Conservation MOU
The Karen National Union (KNU) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) saying that they will work together to...
President U Htin Kyaw
November 11, 2016
President Looks Forward to Industrialised Karen State
In a Karen State Day message to the Karen people Burmese President U Htin Kyaw said that he looks forward to a thriving Karen State where factories...
November 7, 2016
Rangoon Based Karens Unhappy with Plan to Postpone KNU Congress
The Karen political community in the Rangoon region has criticised a proposal by some Karen National Union (KNU) leaders to postpone the 16th KNU...
Youths participating in the KYO Youth Empowered Society Camp
November 7, 2016
KYO Trains Youths to Take Part in Peace Process
The Karen Youth Organisation (KYO) ran a short course at a ‘Youth Empowered Society Camp’ to train youths on how to effectively participate in the...
October 31, 2016
Fear of Interrogations Prevents IDPs Returning to Mae Tha Wor
People displaced from the Mae Tha Wor area of Karen State by fighting are too scared to return home because they fear being interrogated by the Burma...
October 28, 2016
Sixty-Five Returning Refugees Arrive in Myawaddy
Sixty-five refugees from Nu Po Refugee Camp in Tak Province, Thailand arrived at a welcome camp in Myawaddy, Karen State at 2.30pm on 26 October.
The Splinter DKBA's statement on reunification with the KNU
October 25, 2016
Splinter DKBA Could Reunify with KNU
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (Splinter DKBA), which splintered from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), will only reunify with the...