Kachinland News (KLN) | January 15, 2018 Battles continue unabated between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese Army in southern and western Kachin state, and northern Shan state in the past week. In southern Kachin state, a Burmese army’s [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | January 16, 2018 After its central committee meeting, the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army – North (SSPP/SSA-N) released a statement that the Tatmadaw has launched over 500 military [...]
Burma Link | January 17, 2018 Ko Kya grew up amidst conflict in Hee Poe Der village in Karen National Union (KNU) 5th Brigade. The villagers had to often hide in the jungle when they heard Burma Army was [...]
Network Media Group (NMG) / BNI Online | January 15, 2018 Despite signing the nationwide ceasefire agreement, the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) has clashed four times with the Tatmadaw within this month, according [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | January 16, 2018 Simultaneously shortly after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) doled out a statement to postpone the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), scheduled to start [...]
Network Media Group (NMG) / BNI Online | January 15, 2018 Three Kachin political parties will merge in the Kachin State, according to a statement released by the Kachin Political Parties Coordination Committee (KPCC). The Kachin Democratic Party (KDP), [...]
Action for Shan State Rivers (ASSR) | January 15, 2018 Action for Shan State Rivers (ASSR) strongly opposes the hydropower stakeholder discussion being held in Taunggyi today, which is part of a series of meetings to “finalize” a countrywide [...]
Burma Link | January 15, 2018 Although 28-year-old Hser Gay Paw was born in the Karen State, she has spent most of her life in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand, where her family fled when she was only [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | January 11, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The Karen National Union agrees with the position of its armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army, that the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference should [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | January 12, 2018 During the celebrations of last week’s 70th National Independence Day, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) said the crisis in Rakhine State has become the government’s most immediate [...]