By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News | January 26, 2018 As one could just enthusiastically proclaims “and then there were ten,” to the 8 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) another two, the New [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | January 25, 2018 The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) leader Gen Yawd Serk denounced the Tatmadaw’s inspection of a Shan national school and teachers in Htunt-yeing Village Tract, under [...]
By Nang Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | January 25, 2018 YANGON — The third session of the 21st-Century Panglong Peace Conference will be delayed until February to accommodate recent developments in the peace process, a spokesman for [...]
By Oliver Slow / Frontier Myanmar | January 25, 2018 Landmines have blighted thousands of innocent civilians' lives in Myanmar, which remains one of the few countries yet to sign a 1997 treaty banning their use. AS PREPARATIONS continue for [...]
Narinjara News / BNI Online | January 24, 2018 Eight men, who were receiving medical treatment at the Sittwe Hospital, have been arrested on January 23 for their involvement in the Mrauk-U riot, according to the patients’ families. U [...]
Kachinland News | January 23, 2018 On Jan 21, Burmese army troops fired several mortar rounds on Tingkawk village, located on Ledo road between Myitkyina and Danai in western Kachin state, following a battle with KIA troops. A mortar [...]
Joint Strategy Team | January 23, 2018 Fresh fighting between the Myanmar Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) recently took place in Sumprabum and Hpakan township in Kachin State. Since 19 January 2018, there have [...]
Mizzima | January 24, 2018 Two more ethnic armed groups, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Lahu Democratic Union (LDU), have agreed to sign the government's Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) soon, Xinhua reported on 23 January citing a [...]
By Chan Thar / Myanmar Times | January 22, 2018 A military tribunal has sentenced six Tatmadaw troops, including four officers, to 10 years imprisonment after they were found guilty in the killing of three villagers in Mansi township in [...]
By Zeyar Maw / Mizzima | January 22, 2018 Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) spokesman Maj. Tak Aik Kyaw confirmed to Mizzima that troops of Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and TNLA have been fighting near Kaik Tai [...]