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December 23, 2014
Around 300 parents of students from Dhamatha Village, Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State, staged a protest in downtown Kyaikmayaw on Wednesday 17th...
December 23, 2014
A centuries old inscribed stone which might throw more light on the history of the Rakhine people has been found in an Arakanese palace.
December 23, 2014
Three people, including one soldier, were arrested by the authorities for their involvement in a theft from the armoury of an infantry battalion...
December 23, 2014
The Arakan National Party (ANP) has invited nominations for candidates who are interested in contesting Parliamentary polls scheduled for next year.
December 23, 2014
Thirty-five Rohingya fishermen were abducted from Burmese waters in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Maungdaw in Arakan State by a big trawler on...
December 23, 2014
A report by the Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, has found the Burma Army guilty of ‘war crimes’ constituting ‘crimes against...
December 22, 2014
Twenty-year old Hla Ko* has an easy smile, a cool haircut and the manic energy of a young man with few ties. He studies medicine but adores politics...
December 22, 2014
Due to the refusal by Burma government authorities to grant the necessary permits United Nations (UN) convoys have not been able to deliver aid to...
December 19, 2014
More than 400 locals joined the Ye Social Society (YSS) group to protest against the Toyo Thai Group’s proposed coal-fired power plant, which is to...
December 19, 2014
The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) will be holding a conference with UNA member groups from 22nd to 24th December at the Royal Rose Hall in...
December 19, 2014
Journalists and reporters from Mon State, Karen States and the Tenasserim Division in southern Burma held a two-day Southern Myanmar Journalist Forum...
December 19, 2014
The abbots from six village monasteries in Ye Township, Mon State asked the Mon State Government to stop the construction of a coal-fired power plant...
December 19, 2014
Karenni Women’s groups want the government to stop all mega-projects in Karenni State during the ceasefire and not resume them until there has been...
December 19, 2014
S.H.A.N. has learned that there was heavy fighting between government forces and the Federal Union Army (FUA) earlier this month at Kutkai, Manton...
December 19, 2014
Hundreds of villagers in Kachin State's jade rich Hpakant district have fled their homes since 13th December because of a serious rise in tensions...

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