News
February 1, 2013
| Mizzima
Dozens of leading authors have gathered in Rangoon for The Irrawaddy Literary Festival this weekend.
February 1, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| KNG
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
| Kaladan
More land has been confiscated by Arakan state authorities for recently resettled Rakhine villagers in southern Maungdaw, according to a Rohingya...
January 31, 2013
| S.H.A.N
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
| KIC
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
| Mizzima
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| Narinjara
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
| KIC
Civil society groups voiced their disappointment that the government ministers appointed to its Peace Committee failed to address many of the...
January 30, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Narinjara
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
| Mizzima
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...