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Ye Ni, of The Irrawaddy, is facing charges under Myanmar's Telecommunication Law Section 66(d) over the outlet's reporting on conflict in Rakhine State. Photo: Ye Ni/Facebook
March 19, 2020
The Myanmar military should immediately drop its criminal defamation complaint against editor Ye Ni and stop using legal threats to stifle reporting...
Kachin State People's Party's signboard at their office in Myitkyina. Photo: KSPP/Facebook
March 19, 2020
Local political parties in Kachin state have been working together to strengthen the prospects of their candidates beating those from the ruling...
Myanmar migrant fishermen unload fish from Thai fishing boats at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: EPA
March 18, 2020
Suu Myat May Zaw — The Bangkok based Myanmar embassy issued a press release on March 16 which urges Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand not to go...
March 16, 2020
Myanmar embassy consul general office (Chiang Mai) a issued press statement dated March 13 which says that Thai government informed them that the...
Myanmar women wearing hats and headscarfs line up as they plant paddy seedlings to grow rice crop at a farm in Ma-ubin township of Ayeyarwaddy region, Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
March 16, 2020
President Office spokesman Zaw Htay has said that Myanmar has enough food despite the fears over the coronavirus. Myanmar is one of the few countries...
A Myanmar family sits on the remains of their house in Bogolay, the Irrawaddy Delta, 14 May 2008. Photo: EPA
March 16, 2020
The study of the oceans is crucial for countries such as India and Myanmar because it helps governments to predict and manage responses to climatic...
Photo: AA
March 14, 2020
Naung Naung — Arakan Army (AA) spokesman Khaing Thu Kha confirmed to Mizzima that they would like to immediately release two critically wounded POWs...
March 14, 2020
The 18th meeting of Myanmar's Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) was held on Thursday in capital Nay Pyi Taw, Xinhua reported. The meeting...
Members of parliament cast their votes during the Assembly of the Union (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) at the parliament building in Nay Pyi Taw on 11 March 2020. Photo: Than Htike Aung/Mizzima
March 12, 2020
Myanmar’s parliament rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to...
Photo: Arakan Army
March 12, 2020
The Arakan Army (AA) has captured 30 government soldiers, including a battalion commander, near Paletwa township in Chin state during heavy fighting...
Three people walk along a road in Buthidaung township, Rakhine State. Photo: Richard Sargent/AFP
March 11, 2020
Myanmar police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a...
Government representatives and the representatives of (NCA-S EAO) hold the bilateral coordination meeting at National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon yesterday. Photo: MNA
March 10, 2020
Government representatives and the representatives of (NCA-S EAO) held a bilateral coordination meeting at National Reconciliation and Peace Centre...