News
May 5, 2014
| KIC
Government officials and local Karen National Union officials have decided to let villagers decide if a cement factory is to be built in their area.
May 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar will eradicate forced child labour, the Deputy Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, U Htin Aung, pledged at a May Day event...
May 3, 2014
| IMNA
Mon National Party (MNP) chairman Nai Ngwe Thein is taking a break from serving as party leader due to health reasons. His request to take leave was...
May 3, 2014
| IMNA
Min Thu Tha – Aun-den village, Mon State Last month officials from Toyo Thai, a firm that is planning to build a 1280 mega watt coal-fired power...
May 3, 2014
| IMNA
Khitar Non – The All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP)’s chairman Nai Ngwe Thein was recently removed from his position following an emergency...
May 2, 2014
| KIC
The newly formed Karen National Party (KNP), based in the Irrawaddy Delta region, elected its leadership committee following a public meeting on...
May 2, 2014
| KIC
Hundreds of workers gathered in Mae Sot’s district office today to march through the town and along Asia Highway in solidarity for workers worldwide...
May 2, 2014
| KIC
UN Secretary General states that impunity by Burma’s authorities regarding human rights violations could risk serious international consequences.
May 2, 2014
| KIC
During his trip to Karen State, Parliament speaker, Thura Shwe Mann, promised farmers to look into land confiscation cases in the region once they...
May 2, 2014
| Mizzima
The United Nations childrens’ fund, UNICEF, has unveiled a multi-million dollar work plan for Rakhine State which it says will continue to close the...
May 2, 2014
| Mizzima
More than 200 Myanmar workers at the Letpadaung Copper Mine, Salingyi township, Sagaing Region have gone on strike in support of demands that their...
April 30, 2014
| Mizzima
Delegates at the Arakan National Conference in Kyaukphyu have accused the Union Government and the United Nations of working to disrupt peace and...
April 30, 2014
| Mizzima
Student activists have announced plans for protests throughout the country against a draft plan for reforming the education system.
April 30, 2014
| S.H.A.N
In order to achieve a speedy Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), both the government and the armed resistance movements (ARMs) will have to change...
April 30, 2014
| KIC
In a media statement released on April 23, the ethnic alliance the United Nationalities Federal Council (Union Of Burma), condemned the government...