By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald News | October 4, 2017 With the aim to forge a common policy, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held a stakeholders’ meeting for four days from September 27 to 30, where 15 ethnic political [...]
Written by Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | October 2, 2017 The “88 Generation” has established a party organising committee in the ethnic Bamar heartland of Hinthada Township, Irrawaddy Division, as it eyes becoming a major political force in [...]
Written by Saw Shar/Karen Information Center (KIC News)/Burma News International (BNI) | October 2, 2017 Hoping to bring relief displaced Karen people whose camp no longer has a source of funding, the Karen diaspora across the border in Thailand [...]
Burma News International/Kachin News Group (KNG) | September 27, 2017 Tired of being taxed by soldiers, and seeing little headway after petitioning state politicians, Kachin State residents are taking up the issue of a graft-riddled checkpoint themselves. The residents [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | September 21, 2017 This News Bulletin describes the details of a non-violent protest held by Internally Displaced People (IDPs) that urged the Tatmadaw to withdraw their army camps in Lu Thaw Township, Hpapun [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | September 21, 2017 Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation Ongoing torture, killing, arbitrary arrests during midnight raids by Burma Army in Ho Pong township Since the end of July 2017, Burma Army troops [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | 27 September 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Aiming to consolidate their positions on common policies, around 100 politicians, ethnic armed group leaders and civil society members have joined a stakeholders’ consultation hosted by the [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | September 26, 2017 Despite appeals for emergency funding, a displaced persons camp in Kayin (Karen) State has received no additional cash and anticipates its finances will dry up by the end of this month, officials [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News | September 26, 2017 While humanitarian catastrophe in Burma’s Arakan or Rakhine State, the nuclear proliferation in North Korea and the risk of a nuclear war, earthquake in Mexico, and [...]
By Paing Soe / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 25, 2017 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Tanai Township will face a shortage of rations by the end of this month, aid workers say. To date, [...]