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February 28, 2014
Myanmar lodged a diplomatic protest with China last year over the illegal export of timber and minerals from protected areas of Kachin State,...
February 28, 2014
The Speaker of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Thura U Shwe Mann, and the heads of more than 40 parliamentary committees discussed a proposal to ban inter-...
February 27, 2014
The Myanmar government has dismissed accusations that it is involved in the systematic violation of the human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine...
February 27, 2014
The government’s decision to not list ethnicity and religion on new national identification (ID) cards that follows the country’s first census in...
February 27, 2014
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) recently held a press conference about the alleged attempted rape of a Mon woman by a Burma army soldier.
February 27, 2014
A new research center, named Pyidaungsu Institute (PI) for Peace and Dialogue, is to be opened officially in Chiangmai today, according to its...
February 27, 2014
The ongoing conflicts in Kachin province of Burma have forced hundreds of Arakanese workers to return back. For record, 182 Arakanese workers...
February 27, 2014
More police stations along the western Burma border are on the card, as the government has planned to set up four additional police stations in these...
February 27, 2014
The international humanitarian organization and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Medecins Sans Frontiers, says it would welcome an opportunity to explain...
February 27, 2014
Women must be included in the peace process in Myanmar, a workshop in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai has been told.
February 27, 2014
Prominent leaders of four state level Kachin political parties met recently in state capital Myitkyina to discuss cooperating in the 2015 national...
February 26, 2014
Just as a cow can be a table by logical reasoning, so can Burma be a federal union, according to one of Naypyitaw’s chief critics yesterday.
February 26, 2014
There are several hurdles to overcome before a nationwide ceasefire can be achieved, said Nai Hong Sar, who serves as the vice-chairman of New Mon...
February 25, 2014
Hundreds of people attended a rally held in Nay Pyi Taw at the weekend to support a draft law banning inter-faith marriage between Buddhist women and...
February 24, 2014
The Shan population survey team formed last year in Rangoon was warmly welcomed by the Shan community in Twante last week, according to a member of...

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