By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 25, 2018 Mon State — A leader of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) says the government will let it transport 5,000 tons of logged timber currently stuck in the jungle on [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | September 25, 2018 YANGON—Eight Arakanese freed by a Sittwe court on Monday after spending months in detention for participating in a protest in Mrauk-U in were abruptly re-arrested on the orders of [...]
Mon News Agency / BNI Online | September 24, 2018 An informal roundtable discussion of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC)’s secretaries was held for two days in Naypyidaw. The two-day roundtable discussion was held at Mount Pleasant [...]
Karen Community of Canada (KCC) | September 24, 2018 Dear Minister Chrystia Freeland, As the Karen Community of Canada, we were pleased to see Canadian MPs unanimously support the motion to declare the Rohingya crisis a genocide and to [...]
Narinjara / BNI Online | September 24, 2018 Fighting is raging between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) in Paletwa Township in western Myanmar border. The Arakan Army announced that a clash broke out near Ohn Thee Wa [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 21, 2018 The men, who range in age from 19 to 23, were working on the Shan-China border to earn money for their school fees and to [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | September 21, 2018 A woman was killed in a mine blast in Nam-tawng Village of Pang-hseng (Kyu Koke) under Muse Township, northern Shan State at around 3 pm on September 19. The [...]
World Kachin Congress | September 21, 2018 1. We welcome the UN Fact-Finding Mission's full report on evidence of genocide against Rohingya in Rakhine State, and war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed against ethnic minorities in Kachin and [...]
By Saw Thein Myint / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | September 20, 2018 No compensation has been given to most of the villagers whose lands have been seized for development projects in southeastern Myanmar, the Karen Human [...]
Narinjara / BNI Online | September 20, 2018 Around 50 Rakhine youths staged a protest in front of Myanmar embassy in Tokyo, Japan on September 19 to demand the immediate release of Dr Aye Maung and writer Wai Hin [...]