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April 9, 2014
| Mizzima
The Chief Minister of Bago Region, U Nyan Win, has urged youth members of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party to be careful in their...
April 8, 2014
| Mizzima
Negotiations between the government and armed ethnic groups over a draft national ceasefire agreement have been delayed by disagreements over the...
April 7, 2014
| Mizzima
About 300 riot police were deployed in Hlegu on April 6 to help enforce a curfew imposed on April 4 after a riot near a market, a police officer said.
April 7, 2014
| Khonumthung
Mizo Student Union (MSU) a civil society group working for unity among tribes in the area announced the Chinlung Chhuak Zofa festival will be held in...
April 7, 2014
| Khonumthung
A forest fire recently ravaged 23 houses in two villages in southern Chin state. Fourteen out of thirty houses were reduced to ash in Pakataung with...
April 5, 2014
| Mizzima
National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has offered to help nearly 300 families from Yangon’s Mayangone Township who say they are...
April 4, 2014
| KIC
Burma’s census discriminates against ethnic Rohingya Muslims by refusing to recognise their existence, according to international rights groups, with...
April 4, 2014
| KIC
For villagers in southeastern Burma, a tentative 2012 ceasefire between ethnic Karen rebels and the government has yet to address an intractable...
April 4, 2014
| KNG
Ethnic Kachin woman Samlut Roi Ja was abducted at Mu Bum near Mai Ja Yang in Bahmo district in Kachin state in October 2011, believed to be raped and...
April 4, 2014
| KIC
At Mae Tao Clinic’s Prosthetic Department on the Thai-Burma border, the overwhelming majority of patients are land mine victims from Burma, human...
April 4, 2014
| S.H.A.N
Representatives of the armed resistance movements’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) as well as non-NCCT groups are heading for Rangoon...
April 4, 2014
| Mizzima
United Nations agencies and international non-government organisations will be allowed to return to Rakhine State after April 21 subject to the...
April 4, 2014
| KIC
International rights group condemns marriage law proposal in Burma’s parliament as violating the rights of women and religious minorities. In an...
April 3, 2014
| Mizzima
The top United Nations official in Myanmar has described the attacks on the premises of UN agencies and non-government organisations in Sittwe last...
April 2, 2014
| Narinjara
At least twelve people have been detained by the Sittwe police suspecting their role in the recent attacks on several offices belonged to...