Ethnic-Group Fighting in Shan Kills Three
By Myat Moe Thu / Myanmar Times | November 26, 2018 Three civilians were killed in clashes among ethnic groups in northern Shan State over the weekend, bringing to five the total number of civilian [...]
Arakan Army Claims It Killed 3 Tatmadaw Soldiers in Remote Clash
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | November 23, 2018 YANGON—Three government soldiers were reportedly killed on Thursday during fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) in an area between northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township and [...]
Myanmar State Counsellor Stresses Promoting Interfaith Dialogue to Gain Lasting Peace
Mizzima | November 23, 2018 Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed the need to promote interfaith dialogue, saying that respect and understanding of religious and cultural diversity would contribute to lasting peace [...]
Kayah Steps Up Accountability in Budget Process
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, [...]
China Provides Aid to IDPs in Kachin State
Mizzima | November 21, 2018 The Chinese embassy in Myanmar Tuesday provided humanitarian assistance to displaced persons in Kachin state, Xinhua reported. The Chinese embassy provided 160 million kyats (101,265 U.S. dollars) worth of commodities [...]
Northern Burma Delegation Calls for Action to Hold Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Accountable and Allow Aid to Displaced People
Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Watch / Progressive Voice | November 20, 2018 A delegation of religious leaders, women’s rights activists and civil society groups representing the Kachin, Shan and Ta’ang ethnic nationalities from [...]
Ethnic Dawei Party Wants Language Ban Lifted
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 [...]
Students Attend Model Peace Conference
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 [...]
Why a Land Law Change Is Sparking Fears of Mass Evictions
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 [...]
Kachin Woman, 60, Shot Dead as Rival EAOs Clash in Lashio Township
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 19, 2018 An ethnic Kachin woman was killed on Nov. 17 when fighting erupted between rival ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) outside her village near Lashio Township in [...]