By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | August 31, 2018 MON STATE—Six Karenni youth activists who participated in a July protest against a state government project to erect a statue of General Aung San in the Karenni State capital, [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | August 30, 2018 YANGON — Clashes broke out between Myanmar Army and Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA) troops near the village of Kan Nyi Naung in Karen State’s [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | August 30, 2018 The New Mon State Party (NMSP) said it will strive to find solutions for internal peace together with other ethnic people even though there are still differences of opinion [...]
By Sa Isue / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | August 28, 2018. The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held its central executive committee meeting at the Thai-Myanmar border on Sunday (August 26) to discuss its continuous participation [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | August 29, 2018 Today, at Orchid Hotel in Yangon, Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) launched its thematic report titled “Development without us”: Village Agency and Land Confiscations in Southeast Myanmar. This report analyses [...]
By Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy | August 28, 2018 NAYPYITAW — An investigation into the ownership of some 900 acres (364 hectares) of land allegedly acquired illegally by former President U Thein Sein and his cabinet members [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | August 28, 2018 MON STATE — The Myanmar government has denied the Committee for Shan State Unity (CSSU) permission to hold a scheduled two-day meeting in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, [...]
Khonumthung News / BNI Online | August 27, 2018 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chief of Mission has postponed the plan to interview Chin refugees in September and October as part of the repatriation program and [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | August 27, 2018 Mon youths from the Karen (Kayin) State have joined Mon youths and Mon people during the 71st Mon Revolution Day ceremony, which was led by Mon youths in Mudon [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | August 24, 2018 The government’s Peace Commission and the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) originally agreed to meet in mid-August but they are still unable to meet, the KNPP secretary 1 Khu [...]