By Kyaw Thu / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 1, 2018 Civil society organizations and local residents have called on the Myanmar government to cancel the U.S. $3.6 billion Chinese-financed Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin [...]
Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | October 1, 2018 Fighting broke out between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) in Muse and Kukai townships in northern Shan State over the weekend, displacing around [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 28, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—To resolve the current standoff over the issue of non-secession, observers of the peace process urged the government at a stakeholders meeting in Yangon on Friday to [...]
By Khup Khup / Chin World / BNI Online | September 28, 2018 Local authorities are carrying out a project to erect a statue of Bogyoke Aung San at a cost of Ks 7 million inside a park in [...]
Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) | September 27, 2018 (New report details current human rights concerns in Chin State, Myanmar) (Bangkok, Sept 27th 2018) — On the 13 June 2018 the UNHCR officially confirmed that Chin refugees from Myanmar were [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 27, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has recently detained almost 100 Christian pastors and conscripted bible students into its ranks as fighters in self-declared autonomous areas bordering China and Thailand in Shan state, [...]
By Soe Zan Aung (Toungup) / Narinjara / BNI Online | September 27, 2018 The Arakan Youth Association – Japan has denounced the government for re-arresting eight Mrauk-U youths after they served their sentence for taking part in the [...]
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) | September 27, 2018 It has been over one month since Nang Mo Hom, a Shan woman living in Ho Naung Ward, Namhkam City in Muse District, Shan State, was arrested at gunpoint [...]
28 Rohingya Organizations | September 25, 2018 We are deeply dismayed by the openly anti-International Criminal Court (ICC) view expressed by Dr. Wakar Uddin, the Director-General of the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), in his Burmese language interview with the [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | September 26, 2018 Following the fighting, Arakanese men have been detained near the Indian border under the suspicion of having ties to the AA. Recent clashes have occurred between the Arakan [...]