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June 3, 2014
Mahn Robert Zan, an advisor to the Karen Communities of Minnesota and a former Karen freedom fighter, urged the Karen National Union (KNU) to set a...
June 3, 2014
In an exclusive interview with Karen News a senior commander from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), Brigadier General Saw Kyaw Phyu, joined...
June 3, 2014
In a statement released on Friday, outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, expressed his concerns...
June 3, 2014
The agenda of a June 5 scheduled meeting between Bangladeshi and Myanmar border officials will include a discussion about the recent deadly border...
June 3, 2014
Summing up the latest round of talks between the ethnic armed movements’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) and Naypyitaw’s Union...
June 2, 2014
Hundreds of young Karen people dressed in their traditional clothing file into a large open-air building in Karen State, a booming series of “hello…...
June 2, 2014
Aye Mi Aung – Locals will oppose the building of a 1280 Megawatt coal-fired power plant by Toyo Thai Corporation near Aunden Village in Mon State’s...
June 2, 2014
Villagers forcibly displaced to make way for the Myitsone Dam project in Kachin state continue to oppose the dam, according to a referendum conducted...
May 31, 2014
Locals will oppose the building of a 1280 Megawatt coal-fired power plant by Toyo Thai near Aunden Village in Ye Township, Mon State according to Nai...
May 31, 2014
Sources from within the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation have alleged that the minister in charge; U Myint Hlaing has instructed that all...
May 31, 2014
Executives from an influential and controversial Washington lobby firm, the Podesta Group, have attended a meeting in the Rakhine State capital,...
May 30, 2014
Negotiating for the Nationwide ceasefire Agreement (NCA) is like playing a game of polo while the political dialogue that will follow later is like a...
May 30, 2014
China has warned that illicit drugs pose "a significant and growing" threat to the Greater Mekong Sub-region and has called for greater coordination...
May 30, 2014
A leader of the 88 Generation Peace and Open society group has called on the youth of today to follow a political path of their own choosing, no...
May 30, 2014
Negotiating the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) is like playing a game of polo, whereas the political dialogue following thereafter is like a...

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