Mizzima
2014-03-25
Constitutional reform is needed to end the isolation of the Tatmadaw from the people, the leader of the opposition National League for Democracy, Daw...
2014-03-25
Nearly 3,000 people marched in six townships throughout Myanmar in simultaneous protests held on March 23 to demand amendments to the constitution.
2014-03-25
About 100 people have begun a march of about 1,200kilometres (750 miles) from Yangon to the site of the controversial Myitsone Dam in Kachin State to...
2014-03-25
The international aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontiers says it has been encouraged by talks with the government on the possibility of re-opening...
2014-03-22
The government has foreign debt totaling US$9.593 billion, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr Lin Aung, told the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on March 20.
2014-03-22
The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party will contest all 31 by-elections due to take place later this year to fill vacancies in the Union...
2014-03-22
The manager of a military-owned factory said by a weekly journal to be making chemical weapons has asked that it be subject to an emergency decree...
2014-03-21
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has approved an increase in the cost of electricity meter fees from April 1 in a decision which came after a government move...
2014-03-21
The leader of the opposition National League for Democracy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has spoken out against unethical behaviour in politics at a meeting...
2014-03-21
Myanmar’s economic transformation is ineffective because it lacks a specific focus and is being implemented too quickly, the head of the presidential...
2014-03-20
The Kachin Independence Organisation has rejected a request from the government to collect census data on territory under the KIO’s control, a member...
2014-03-19
Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann says action is needed by the government and the parliament to ensure that villagers who cut timber for their...
2014-03-19
A petition demanding an immediate halt to six dam projects on the Thanlwin River will be sent to President U Thein Sein and the Chinese and Thai...
2014-03-19
A coalition representing Myanmar’s main armed ethnic groups will meet this week to choose its representatives on a committee tasked with drafting a...
2014-03-18
Protests against the term ‘Rohingya’ being allowed as an ethnic category in the forthcoming census were held throughout Rakhine State on March 16.