By Hein Ko Soe / Frontier Myanmar | October 27, 2017 YANGON - Ethnic minority researchers have called on the government to halt and review planned natural resource extraction projects in minority areas to avoid further conflicts with communities. [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 24, 2017 YANGON — Since Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked police outposts in northern Rakhine State on Aug. 25, security personnel and hundreds of militants have been killed, but undoubtedly civilians have been [...]
Burma News International (BNI) / Network Media Group (NMG) | October 25, 2017 Ethnic negotiators say headway has been made in their latest peace talks, with agreements reached on all but one of the eight preconditions before they will [...]
Burma News International/Shan Herald Agency for News | October 23,2017 Tensions are running high in Shan State, after the Tatamdaw ordered the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) to retreat from positions along the Mong Hsu-Mong Nawng highway [...]
Kyaw Zwa Moe/The Irrawaddy| October 23, 2017 Without the military’s collaboration, the democratic transition in Myanmar will go nowhere. Like it or not, it’s the realpolitik of the country and no one can discard that reality. Unlike most countries [...]
Karen News on Vimeo | October 20, 2017 International support for displaced people in northern Karen State stopped at the end of September 2017. Residents of the internally displaced people’s camp, Ei Tu Hta in the Papun district of Karen [...]
Mizzima News | October 21, 2017 The Asia Foundation has carried out a year-long study that analyzes roots and patterns of armed conflict in Myanmar, development trends in conflict-affected areas, and impact of foreign aid on conflict and peace-building, [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald News Agency | October 19, 2017 As the International Crisis Group (ICG) has pointed out the narrow nationalist sentiments taking hold, unopposed by the democratically-elected government, it will make Myanmar more difficult “to forge an [...]
Progressive Voice | October 18, 2017 A new report by the UN Human Rights Office based on interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that fled the latest Myanmar[1] Army crackdown reaffirms the reports from media and human rights organizations of terrible suffering [...]
By Min Thuta/Mon News Agency | October 17, 2017 An ethnic leader is arguing that negotiations over political power sharing should take precedence over ceasefires in the current peace process. Following the October 15 feting of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement [...]