By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | November 23, 2018 YANGON—Three government soldiers were reportedly killed on Thursday during fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) in an area between northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township and Chin State’s Paletwa Township. [...]
Mizzima | November 23, 2018 Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed the need to promote interfaith dialogue, saying that respect and understanding of religious and cultural diversity would contribute to lasting peace and security. Suu Kyi [...]
The Myanmar Times | November 23, 2018 Kayah’s regional government led a two-day civic consultation attended by 71 civil-society organisations, media, government officials. The consultation, led by the Kayah State Ministry of Planning and Finance, is the first time [...]
Mizzima | November 21, 2018 The Chinese embassy in Myanmar Tuesday provided humanitarian assistance to displaced persons in Kachin state, Xinhua reported. The Chinese embassy provided 160 million kyats (101,265 U.S. dollars) worth of commodities including rice, cooking oil, [...]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Watch / Progressive Voice | November 20, 2018 A delegation of religious leaders, women’s rights activists and civil society groups representing the Kachin, Shan and Ta’ang ethnic nationalities from Burma (Myanmar) completed a [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 20, 2018 Mon State — The Dawei Nationalities Party (DNP) has asked Dawei Township authorities in Tenasserim Region to lift a new ban on using their language to fashion signs for [...]
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | November 20, 2018 Eighty university students from across the country attended the opening of a meeting in Yangon yesterday aimed at finding out their views of the ongoing peace process between the [...]
By Ben Dunant / Frontier Myanmar | November 20, 2018 GOVERNMENT PAPERWORK would have you believe that a third of Myanmar’s landmass, totalling almost 50 million acres, is “vacant”, “virgin” or “fallow”. This is ostensibly idle land and its [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 19, 2018 An ethnic Kachin woman was killed on Nov. 17 when fighting erupted between rival ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) outside her village near Lashio Township in northern Shan State. Mar [...]
United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) and its Partner Organizations | November 19, 2018 1. The Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow & Virgin Land Manageme nt Law were enacted in 2012 and amended with more penalties in late 2017. Now, we've [...]