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January 9, 2014
| Mizzima
Public servants can expect a pay rise of 20,000 kyats a month from the start of the next financial year on April 1, President U Thein Sein told a...
January 8, 2014
| Mizzima
The US government has denied that the use of ‘Myanmar’ in recent statements by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry amounts to a...
January 8, 2014
| Narinjara
Burma (Myanmar) denies its hands in planting mines along the border areas with Bangladesh. It is learnt from a letter sent by a responsible Burmese...
January 8, 2014
| Mizzima
Presidential spokesperson U Ye Htut has defended a law used to arrest of scores of political activists, saying it was needed to ensure that protests...
January 7, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Over two thousand Buddhists gathered on Arakan state’s Kasim Mountain in Phar Wut Chaung village tract, northern Maungdaw, allegedly part of a grand...
January 7, 2014
| Mizzima
Road accidents in Yangon Region soared by 38 per cent last year over 2012 due to mainly reckless driving and traffic-clogged streets, say police.
January 6, 2014
| Mizzima
In one of the biggest demonstrations in Myanmar in years, thousands of protesters gathered in central Yangon on January 5 to demand the repeal of...
January 6, 2014
| KIC
Farmers along the Done-Tha-Mi River face severe rice shortages this year due to wet season flooding.
January 6, 2014
| KIC
A Karen National Union delegation of 10 and led by General Mutu Say Poe met yesterday with Burma’s President Thein Sein and Defense Minister Min Aung...
January 6, 2014
| Kaladan Press
A school teacher providing his students with instructions on how to answer a controversial household survey targeting Muslim residents of Arakan...
January 4, 2014
| S.H.A.N
Many in the ruling party and the armed forces are against amending the charter article stipulating the qualifications of the country’s top executive...
January 4, 2014
| Mizzima
President Thein Sein has expressed support for amendments to the constitution that could result in opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi being...
January 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Political parties representing Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have called for constitutional amendments that would give states and regions more...
January 3, 2014
| Narinjara
The Arakanese community across the world remembered the 229th anniversary of the Fall of Arakan Kingdom and Arakanese sovereignty with a call for...
January 3, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Eight Rohingyas were included in a presidential amnesty for political prisoners on New Year’s Eve. Four were released from Akyab Jail and the others...