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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | November 19, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Myanmar government peace negotiators and the Karen National Union (KNU) have vowed to resume formal peace talks as quickly as possible, after they were postponed [...]
By Nyein Neyin / The Irrawaddy | November 20, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), a non-signatory of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), said solving problems on the ground would help to move forward the process [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | November 17, 2018 Civil society organizations, political parties, and armed groups have said that armed conflict is increasing in northern Shan State, and has been on the rise since the signing of [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 15, 2018 Hundreds of ethnic Pa-O were forced to join a pro-military rally in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State on Wednesday according to a number of community leaders. Khun Soe [...]
KLN / Kachinland News | November, 17, 2018 Local sources reported that BA troops pillaged homes, burned down rice barns and killed domestic animals for food in Sut Ra and Kawng Ja villages in Njang Yang township. About two [...]