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January 3, 2014
| IMNA
Officials from the Mon Democracy Party (MDP) and a faction from the All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMRDP) agreed last month to merge and form the...
January 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar police working in a troubled Shan State township destroyed a record number of poppy fields there this year, but impoverished farmers in the...
January 3, 2014
| S.H.A.N
Two union ministers, meeting representatives of armed groups and civil society organizations in Chiangmai, on Monday (30 December 2013), urged...
December 25, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) led by Nai Hongsa and the government’s Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) led by U Aung Min...
December 25, 2013
| Mizzima
The failure of Myanmar’s election committee to call by-elections and fill vacant seats constitutes an abuse of power, say a number of Myanmar MPs.
December 25, 2013
| Mizzima
The 88-Generation Student Organization has confirmed it has sought permission to stage a protest against what it claims are undemocratic and...
December 25, 2013
| Kaladan Press
The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) slammed the Burma government in a new report for having “marginalized” ethnic Kachin and Rohingya...
December 25, 2013
| Narinjara
Arakanese observed December 15 as its State day with trepidations. The people of Arakan celebrated the anniversary day, remembering the moment when...
December 21, 2013
| Mizzima
AN appeal for warm clothing and adequate shelter has been issued for more than 2,000 war refugees living at camps in southern Kachin State where...
December 20, 2013
| KNG
A Maungdaw judge has sentenced a disabled man to a year in jail following allegations of lewd behavior in the presence of a school head mistress,...
December 19, 2013
| Mizzima
A bomb blast in Shan State killed three people and injured two others this week, the first such explosion since a series of bomb blasts rocked...
December 19, 2013
| Mizzima
The Interim Press Council has refused a demand from the Ministry of Information to mediate with the weekly journal Thuriya Nay Win over accusations...
December 19, 2013
| Mizzima
Measures to resolve conflict between ethnic minorities and the government must be included in any amendments to the constitution, a conference in...
December 16, 2013
| KIC
Villagers in Ka Taw Ni village in Southern Burma alleged that a Thai coal mining company used the local Burmese Army to threaten them for protesting...
December 14, 2013
| Mizzima
Armed ethnic groups have postponed until next month a conference to consider their response to a government proposal for a national ceasefire, a...