News

February 1, 2013
Dozens of leading authors have gathered in Rangoon for The Irrawaddy Literary Festival this weekend.
February 1, 2013
The Japanese Embassy in Rangoon has announced that Japan has relieved Burma of 326.3 billion yen (US$3.58 billion) of debt.
January 31, 2013
Burmese authorities apprehended a French citizen on Wednesday morning as he walked alongside peace marchers from Kywebwe to Taungoo in Pegu Region...
January 31, 2013
According to Sai Nyunt Lwin, General Secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) who is heading the Shan State Conference...
January 31, 2013
Two Kachin civilians were killed and three injured after government shelling struck the Kachin town of Mayan (Mayang) village in Mogaung Township,...
January 31, 2013
More land has been confiscated by Arakan state authorities for recently resettled Rakhine villagers in southern Maungdaw, according to a Rohingya...
January 31, 2013
As more people, taking advantage of the somewhat freer environment created under the present government, have come out to travel around, authorities...
January 30, 2013
KNU President, General Mutu Say Poe, has called for continued ethnic Karen unity while paying respects to the Karen people in a speech marking the...
January 30, 2013
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) on Tuesday accepted an offer by the United Wa State Army (UWSA) to host peace talks with the Burmese...
January 30, 2013
Shans who had held a highly successful forum in November are now moving forward to hold a Shan State conference in March which is expected to be...
January 30, 2013
A group of soldiers of the Burmese army’s general engineering unit known as GE that is constructing a fence along the border in Maungdaw in...
January 30, 2013
Civil society groups voiced their disappointment that the government ministers appointed to its Peace Committee failed to address many of the...
January 30, 2013
Burmese photographers have taken the top four prizes in a Southeast Asian photography competition based on the theme, “Water is Life: Too Much or Too...
January 30, 2013
A group of Muslim living on the outskirts of Maungdaw, a western Burma border town, set fire to some government buildings after a Muslim man was shot...
January 30, 2013
The Burmese government has lifted a ban on public gatherings of more than five people, according to Burma’s state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper on...

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