By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | May 31, 2018YANGON — The last of more than 1,100 residents of Awng Lawt village in Kachin State’s Tanai Township known by aid groups to have been trapped in the [...]
Joint Strategy Team (JST) | May 29, 2018 Since series of armed clashes have been intensified again between Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/KIA) from the beginning of April 2018, over 7,000 civilians have newly displaced [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | May 30, 2018 YANGON — A precise date for the third session of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference still has yet to be fixed due to persistent disagreements between Myanmar’s [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | May 30, 2018 The government, the Tatmadaw, and the signatories of the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) will meet again in Yangon on May 30-31 to find solutions to overcome the deadlocks [...]
By Htoo Thant / Myanmar Times | May 30, 2018 If the country’s president provides instructions regarding the battles taking place in Kachin State, the Tatmadaw (military) will abide by them, said Brigadier General Aung Kyaw Hoe, permanent secretary of [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | May 28, 2018 The Karen National Union (KNU)’s chair Gen Mutu Say Poe has urged the signatories of the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) to review the obstacles in the ongoing peace process [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | May 25, 2018 Tanai MPs have requested the President on May 22 to have the government take immediately action on opening an official internally displaced person (IDP) camp in Tanai, Kachin State. [...]
By Sar Isue / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | May 25, 2018 The Karen Youth Organization (KYO)’s chair Saw Ler Ner has urged more cooperation between ethnic youths in the situation where Myanmar’s political transition cannot guarantee [...]
Burma Link | May 28, 2018 Paul Sein Twa is the Executive Director of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), a community based non-profit organisation that works to improve livelihood security and to gain respect for indigenous [...]
By Kyaw Thu / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | May 24, 2018 A Myanmar army officer has been charged with killing an ethnic Mon villager during an investigation into a domestic dispute in southeastern Myanmar’s Mon state, after the [...]