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May 5, 2014
Government officials and local Karen National Union officials have decided to let villagers decide if a cement factory is to be built in their area.
May 3, 2014
Myanmar will eradicate forced child labour, the Deputy Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, U Htin Aung, pledged at a May Day event...
May 3, 2014
Mon National Party (MNP) chairman Nai Ngwe Thein is taking a break from serving as party leader due to health reasons. His request to take leave was...
May 3, 2014
Min Thu Tha – Aun-den village, Mon State Last month officials from Toyo Thai, a firm that is planning to build a 1280 mega watt coal-fired power...
May 3, 2014
Khitar Non – The All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP)’s chairman Nai Ngwe Thein was recently removed from his position following an emergency...
May 2, 2014
The newly formed Karen National Party (KNP), based in the Irrawaddy Delta region, elected its leadership committee following a public meeting on...
May 2, 2014
Hundreds of workers gathered in Mae Sot’s district office today to march through the town and along Asia Highway in solidarity for workers worldwide...
May 2, 2014
UN Secretary General states that impunity by Burma’s authorities regarding human rights violations could risk serious international consequences.
May 2, 2014
During his trip to Karen State, Parliament speaker, Thura Shwe Mann, promised farmers to look into land confiscation cases in the region once they...
May 2, 2014
The United Nations childrens’ fund, UNICEF, has unveiled a multi-million dollar work plan for Rakhine State which it says will continue to close the...
May 2, 2014
More than 200 Myanmar workers at the Letpadaung Copper Mine, Salingyi township, Sagaing Region have gone on strike in support of demands that their...
April 30, 2014
Delegates at the Arakan National Conference in Kyaukphyu have accused the Union Government and the United Nations of working to disrupt peace and...
April 30, 2014
Student activists have announced plans for protests throughout the country against a draft plan for reforming the education system.
April 30, 2014
In order to achieve a speedy Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), both the government and the armed resistance movements (ARMs) will have to change...
April 30, 2014
In a media statement released on April 23, the ethnic alliance the United Nationalities Federal Council (Union Of Burma), condemned the government...

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