Burma News International (BNI) | September 6, 2016 Representatives for the media covering the Union Peace Conference (also known as the 21st Century Panglong Conference) have criticised the Burmese military for not making its views clear to the media during [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 6, 2016 At least 10,000 people cannot go back to their homes due to the uncertain climate caused by the so-called Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), according a leading member of the Shan [...]
Burma Link | September 7, 2016 The following case study is from the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, which was [...]
By Min Thu Tha / Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) | September 5, 2016 The United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC) continues to stick to with the policy for tripartite talks in order to ink a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA), according to [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 4, 2016 The Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), held from 31 August to 3 September, was supposed to be Aung San Suu Kyi’s deliberation of her major [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 5, 2016 When Saw Eh Doh Moo fled to Thailand during an outbreak of fighting in his village, he wasn’t scared — but he was exhausted and hungry. “I was used to hearing [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 5, 2016 The Burmese military continues to reinforce its troop strength in SSPP/SSA territory, despite calls to seek an end to the conflict by the ethnic armed group at last week’s Union [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | September 5, 2016 The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), a splinter group of Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, has threatened to take action against the Burma Army and the Border Guard Forces (BGF) if they [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 5, 2016 Myanmar’s peace commission has sent a written apology to the head of the country’s largest armed ethnic group, whose delegates stormed out of a major peace conference because of a mix-up regarding [...]
Burma News International (BNI)| September 5, 2016 In a motion submitted to the Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong yesterday, Karen armed groups requested for the government to adhere to international standards during the repatriation of refugees from camps in [...]