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November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Investors require urgent reforms in Myanmar to help their ventures to succeed, especially access to finance, land, electricity and skilled workers,...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
As part of an on-going investigation into the death of freelance journalist Ko Aung Kyaw Naing aka Ko Par Gyi, local police in Mon State plan to...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
An environmental think-tank based in Nepal is to work with the government to develop an ecotourism policy and management strategy for protected areas...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Military-backed militias and their role in the drug trade Militias and illegal business go together in the Shan State capital, Taunggyi. It’s an open...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Protestors rallied on the UN-designated “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists” on 2nd November in front of Yangon City...
October 31, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Several gold miners were arrested at the Mgaung and Namsan streams in the Wa Ra Zup Village Tract in Phakant Township, Kachin State when the...
October 31, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Farmers from Ma-Htaw-Khu will face hardships if they are not given farmland to replace their land that was seized by the police force to use for...
October 31, 2014
| IMNA
The Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF) the proposed united Karen armed force, held its inaugural conference to establish the group’s formation at at Klo...
October 31, 2014
| Kalandan Press
An unregistered 12 year old Rohingya refugee girl was raped in Leda Refugee Camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh according to Jalal a committee member from...
October 30, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Twenty acres of poppy fields grown by local people near the Soung-Du village, Lo-Bar-Kho Village Tract in Demawso township, Karenni state were...
October 30, 2014
| Translated by BNI
A proposal to open youth drug rehabilitation centres was submitted to the national parliament by U Phay Thaung, a member of parliament for...
October 30, 2014
| Mizzima
The Thai Human Rights Commission claims the Italian-Thai Development Company and the Thai authorities have washed their hands over any loss suffered...
October 30, 2014
| Mizzima
Amnesty International is calling on the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a resolution on the country which addresses the government’s “...
October 30, 2014
| Mizzima
A total of 123 local and international NGOs have called on the Myanmar government to investigate the “enforced disappearance of Sumlut Roi Ja,” an...
October 30, 2014
| Mizzima
International funding for troubled ethnic areas may depend on whether a ceasefire agreement has been signed, according to Lamai Gun Ja, spokesperson...