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February 28, 2014
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| IMNA
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
| IMNA
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| Narinjara
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
| Narinjara
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
| Mizzima
The international humanitarian organization and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Medecins Sans Frontiers, says it would welcome an opportunity to explain...
February 27, 2014
| Mizzima
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
| KNG
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| IMNA
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
| Mizzima
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
| S.H.A.N
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...