By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 22, 2018 Local residents in Lashio reported that the situation there had stabilized Thursday following a bomb blast at a Yoma Bank branch on Wednesday that killed two people and wounded [...]
By Su Myat Mon / Frontier Myanmar | February 21, 2018 An environmental group has called for greater respect for the rights of indigenous peoples in Tanintharyi Region, saying that land concessions and restrictions on forest use in recent years [...]
By San Yamin Aung / The Irrawaddy | February 21, 2018 There is still no timeframe for the release of long-withheld ethnic population data from the 2014 census, Minister of Labor, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe told lawmakers [...]
By Nang Mya Nadi / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | February 21, 2018 Three political parties staking their appeal on claims to represent the interests of the ethnic Kachin population in northern Burma are closer to a merger this [...]
By Roseanne Gerin / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | February 20, 2018 Two international rights groups on Monday demanded investigations into incidents involving the enforced disappearances and killings of ethnic Kachin and Karenni men by Myanmar’s military, which has [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 20, 2018 Government authorities are restricting ethnic Wa people who live in northern Shan State from traveling to Kyaingtong and other major towns in eastern parts of the state, according to [...]
By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News | February 18, 2018 The Gat Noi-based Burmese army’s 225th Light Infantry Battalion troops reportedly seized 35-year-old Mr. Ah Di of Seng Hpra village during a fishing trip at Nam Ya creek at [...]
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | February 20, 2018 The armed ethnic group Karen National Union (KNU) wants the government to discuss with them the details of a plan to resume construction of a highway linking Myanmar’s Dawei [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | February 18, 2018 Over 100 ethnic Man Zi residents need food aids in Hseni Township in the northern Shan State after fleeing from the fighting between the Tatmadaw and [...]
Karen Information Center / BNI Online | February 16, 2018 The Karen Women Organization (KWO) of Mu-Traw (Hpapun) District held its seventh congress on February from 8 to 10, and elected new executive members, who will lead for the [...]