By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 21, 2017 As May 24, the convening of Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP) is scheduled to take off, few crucial and essential topics that [...]
By Min Thway Thit / Mon News Agency (MNA) | May 18, 2017 The Mon State government is pressuring the local ethnic armed group to swiftly sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA). During a meeting this week [May 16], [...]
By Sai Wansai | May 18, 2017 Within these few days a lot of political maneuvering have been going on, like Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Wa National Organization (WNO) resignation from United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC); Karenni National Progressive [...]
By Angshuman Choudhury / The Irrawaddy | May 12, 2017 Less than a month before the commencement of the second 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), the Union government of Myanmar faces an unprecedented situation. Both the Kachin Independence Organization [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) / May 10, 2017 The peace process that is scheduled to pick up again on May 24, known as Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), now seems [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 9, 2017 In a large shakeup that could spell trouble for the peace process, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIA) and the Wa National Army (WNA) have resigned from the powerful ethnic bloc, the [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 8, 2017 The call into question for the existence of the ethnic alliance begins with when Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) whose leader is the current-president of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), forwarded [...]
By Khun Ba Thar / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | April 10, 2017 More than 60 representatives of Burmese ethnic armed groups have agreed what they are calling “Basic Guidelines” aimed towards the establishment of a federal union [...]
By Kantarawaddy Times / BNI Online | April 6, 2017 An alliance of ethnic armed groups has said it will not attend the long-delayed second Panglong Conference unless its members first sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. The now repeatedly postponed [...]
By Sai Aw | Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | April 6, 2017 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) – a coalition of 12 ethnic armed groups that declined to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with the [...]