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May 17, 2013
The Myanmar kyat depreciated to 921.50 against the US dollar on Friday, a record low since the country's central bank put a managed float on the...
May 17, 2013
| Mizzima
Food franchises are catching on in Myanmar. And for one local businessman, setting up a restaurant business a decade ago was a way to profit during...
May 17, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar President Thein Sein will discuss his government’s progress toward democracy as well as the country’s ethnic conflicts and communal violence...
May 17, 2013
| Mizzima
A delegation from the Myanmar government is set to meet for negotiations with representatives of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in state...
May 17, 2013
| Mizzima
The Myanmar Fruit and Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association announced last week that the country recently commenced exporting mangoes and...
May 16, 2013
| S.H.A.N
United Wa State Army (UWSA) has set 16 Lisu Thai citizens, whom it had detained on May 12 free, according to the Thai-Burmese border local news...
May 16, 2013
| S.H.A.N
In response to the Burma Army’s attack of the Shan State Army (SSA)’s border outpost on 9 May, Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, Chairman of the Restoration Council...
May 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Preparations are being made to begin compensating civilians in Shan State affected by the civil war between the Myanmar government and the...
May 16, 2013
| S.H.A.N
It is reported that a series of heavy storms has swept dozens of villages in Kunhing Township, southern Shan State, which turned many houses,...
May 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Britain has pledged a £4.4 million (US$6.7 million) humanitarian aid package for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Rakhine State as the cyclone...
May 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar has been ranked as the worst country in the world in terms of resource governance, according to a report issued recently by US-based NGO...
May 16, 2013
| Mizzima
China and Myanmar announced on Wednesday that the two countries have established a new office to help prevent human trafficking across the border.
May 16, 2013
| Mizzima
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has met with two officials from the Myanmar Peace Center as well as representatives of the Border Guard...
May 15, 2013
| KNG
Lamai Gum Ja, a member of the Peace Talk Creation Group (PCG), a committee of Kachin businessmen and community leaders involved in the Kachin peace...
May 15, 2013
| S.H.A.N
According to a senior Thai border security official, both China and United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s denial of a report saying China had delivered a...