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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
October 25, 2016
Government Agencies Working on the First Return of 90 Refugees Back to...
The Karen State government is now making arrangements for the first return of 96 residents – 19 families – who have been living in refugee camps on...
October 24, 2016
Karen and Mon Armed Groups Leaders Agree on Measures to Try to Prevent...
Leaders from the Karen National Union and the News Mon State Party agreed more effort is needed to prevent territorial disputes between the two...
DPNS 28th Anniversary Celebrations.
October 21, 2016
DPNS Urges Army Commander-in-Chief to Stop Conflict
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) chairman, U Aung Moe Zaw, urged the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army to declare a nationwide...
October 21, 2016
Refugees from Mae Tha Wor Facing Difficulties
Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September...
October 21, 2016
Over 90 Refugees to Return from Thailand to Burma
The Karen State government has been making arrangements for the return of over 90 Burmese refugees from refugee camps in Thailand back to Burma.
Meeting between leaders of the KNU and the NMSP
October 20, 2016
KNU and NMSP Reach Agreement to Prevent Future Conflict
Leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) reached an agreement to prevent future conflicts between each other...
October 20, 2016
Villagers Fear DKBA and Government’s Militia Fighting Near Kawkareik Will...
Soldiers from the breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army clashed with the government militia, the Border Guard Force, in Htee Poe Zan village tract...
General Mutu Say Poe talks at the ceremony to celebrate the first anniversary of the NCA signing
October 18, 2016
KNU Chairman Says Nationwide Ceasefire has Weaknesses
The Karen National Union (KNU) chairman, General Mutu Say Poe, said that though the Burmese government and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) signed...
October 17, 2016
KNU Offers Condolence on the Passing of His Majesty the King
The Karen National Union (KNU) executive committee issued a letter of condolence on the passing of His Majesty the King of Thailand.
October 17, 2016
Local Governance Needs More Share of the Power for Ethnic Education To...
Despite some educational reform taking place in Burma, ethnic education workers claim that equal opportunity for them will only be possible when the...
October 17, 2016
Worried Community Opposes Power Plant Proposed to Run Myaing Galay Cement...
Local residents and community leaders gathered to meet with local press at Zayat Phyu village on October 8, to express their opposition against the...
Professor Desmond Ball seen on the Thai-Burma border (Photo-Phil Thornton)
October 13, 2016
VALE DESMOND BALL – 1947 to 2016 – “He stood with the oppressed people of...
Professor Desmond Ball, academic, military strategist and author of more than 40 books on military intelligence, died today at 3:35pm Australian time.