By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | February 13, 2018 The Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Organization/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) held a two-and-a-half hour meeting in the border town of Dali in China’s Yunnan Province on Feb.1 focused on [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | February 13, 2018 Over 170 displaced residents, fled from fighting in Kutkai Township, have taken shelter in Hseni (Theinni) Township, northern Shan State. The Amyotha Hluttaw MP Sai Wan [...]
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | February 13, 2018 The New Mon State Party and Lahu Democratic Union signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on Tuesday, fulfilling a pledge that the two ethnic armed groups made last [...]
By Phanida / Mizzima | February 13, 2018 Despite speculation that three organizations of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) would sign Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), UNFC Chairman Nai Han Thar said that only two organizations were certain to sign the [...]
Chan Thar / Myanmar Times | February 13, 2018 LEADERS of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) on Monday called on ethnic people and democracy advocates across the country to unite and work together for peace. The NLD [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | February 13, 2018 UNFC spokesman Tun Zaw told Mizzima that top leaders of United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) would not be allowed to meet the State Counsellor or Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 12, 2018 Myanmar celebrates its 71st Union Day on Feb. 12. The holiday commemorates the day in 1947 on which ethnic leaders signed the Panglong Agreement with General Aung San, calling for [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | February 9, 2018 Local residents said over 300 people are still trapped amid the fighting in the Kachin State’s Tanai area. Over 3,000 people were trapped amid the fighting on January 27. [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 8, 2018 The Myanmar military asked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) at a meeting in China last week to withdraw from its bases in Kachin State’s Tanai Township where the two [...]
Burma Human Rights Network (BHR) | February 8, 2018 Since Jan. 25, the Myanmar Army has been engaged in an aerial bombardment of Kachin State’s Tanai Township, and carried out military strikes in and occupation of Kachin Independence Army-held [...]