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A man holds new edition of 1,000 Myanmar Kyats banknotes featuring portrait of late General Aung San outside the Myanmar Economic Bank in Yangon, Myanmar, 07 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
January 20, 2020
The US dollar has been sliding against the Kyat in the local currency market, with the exchange rate touching a low of K1,480-1,484 per dollar on 15...
Myanmar President Win Myint (R) greets Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) at the presidential house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 17 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
January 20, 2020
The Myanmar government released a statement 18 January at the end of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit to Myanmar in...
(File) Military truck loaded soldier passes along a deserted road at self-administered Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, 17 February 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 20, 2020
On the day that Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Myanmar, the Myanmar military launched an attack on an ethnic Kokang army base on the Myanmar...
Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw in Kachin State.
January 20, 2020
Myanmar Church officials and displaced Kachin villagers have reportedly conveyed unease over the possibility that the China-backed Myitsone dam...
Photo: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
January 20, 2020
In a meeting with Myanmar Defence Services Commander in Chief, Chinese President Xi Jinping denied his country was supplying arms to ethnic armed...
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) attends the meeting with Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (not in picture) during their meeting at president house in Naypyitaw Myanmar, 17 January 2020. Photo: President's Office/EPA
January 20, 2020
During his visit to Myanmar, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed 33 Memorandum of Understanding agreements, protocols and exchanges including the...
A view of the entrance of the Myitsone dam project near Myitsone area in Myitkyina, Kachin State. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
January 20, 2020
Many Myanmar people have a pessimistic view and negative opinions on Chinese projects in Myanmar such as Myitsone dam project and Letpadaung copper...
China sides with Myanmar in ICJ "genocide" case at the Hague. Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the ICJ in The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 December 2019. Photo: Koen Van Weel/EPA
January 20, 2020
Various commentators have offered up mixed views on the historic visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Myanmar but one message that comes through...
An armored fighting vehicle of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) drives in a downtown area of Panghsang, also called Pang Kham, autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar, 17 April 2019. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 17, 2020
The United Wa State Party (UWSP) says that they expect the solution for resolving fighting between government troops and northern Myanmar based...
January 17, 2020
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi met with ethnic Karenni youth in eastern Kayah state Wednesday to discuss local grievances there, the latest step...
Leisure boats are berthed at the Haikou National Sailing Base and Public Marina in Haikou, Hainan island, China. Photo: EPA
January 16, 2020
A new direct air route was launched yesterday between Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, and Myanmar's Yangon, Xinhua reported. The...
Photo: Aung Ko Oo/Mizzima
January 16, 2020
Mandalay Region Water Resources and Rivers Development Department chief Kyaw Myint Than told Mizzima that they are planning to take legal action...