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November 6, 2014
| IMNA
The security of Burma’s journalists continues to be threatened, said the Secretary of the Myanmar Journalist Network (MJN), U Myint Kyaw, as he spoke...
November 6, 2014
| IMNA
The Ethnic Alliance Political Parties' (EAPP) top leaders decided not to extend membership to political parties that are already members of other...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
President U Thein Sein, speaking during his latest monthly radio address, says the recent high level talks in Nay Pyi Taw may have attracted...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
US President Barack Obama, who will arrive in Nay Pyi Taw next week, needs to put pressure on President U Thein Sein’s government to hold true to...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel is pulling out of a long-planned trip to Myanmar this month because of a demanding schedule at home, defence officials...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The UN refugee agency identified Myanmar as the nation containing the largest number of stateless people when it launched a campaign to eradicate...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
A recent outbreak of Ufra rice disease is decimating rice crops in Ayeyarwady Region. Caused by a tiny nematode (Ditylenchus angustus) that feeds on...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The European Union and Myanmar’s Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry recently held discussions about how Myanmar can encourage...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
Nay Pyi Taw - US President Barack Obama will meet with Myanmar opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 13th November, the day the discussion on the...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The survey period promoting “Just Business” to business enterprises in ASEAN will be extended by one month to include a larger number of respondents...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The Myanmar government admits that 27 political prisoners remain locked up in the country’s notorious jails but this is because most of them have “...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The parents of the Myanmar suspects accused of the murder of two British tourists on Thailand’s Koh Tao island have asked the Thai Department of...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The Myanmar military company behind a sprawling business empire has tried to reassure foreign investors after it won a legal tussle to buy out its...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
The 56 political parties that formed the Peace and Politics Implementation Committee have now agreed on 20 points they wish to be discussed as part...
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
Since the start of 2014, 26 cases of children trafficked or sold into prostitution have been identified by Myanmar’s Central Committee for Prevention...