By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 2, 2017 Burma’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to assist Kachin children who are currently living in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to receive [...]
Karen National Union Concerned Group (KNU CG) | July 31, 2017 1. The consultation meeting on providing assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and refugees organized by Mutraw District Executive Committee held on July 25, 2017 was attended [...]
By Tin Htet Paling / The Irrawaddy | July 31, 2017 WAINGMAW & MYITKYINA, Kachin State — Noticing she had a growing abdomen, 22-year-old ethnic Kachin woman Nang Tsin went to the only immediately available healthcare service nearby—a midwife. [...]
By Min Min / Mizzima News | July 31, 2017 Maj. Gen. Aunt Ye Win from the Tatmadaw (Defence Services) True News Information Committee urged media to control and refrain from using unfriendly words such as ‘military’ or ‘government [...]
The Irrawaddy | July 29, 2017 Ye Ni: Welcome to Dateline Irrawaddy! This week, we discuss the latest developments in Shan and Kachin states and their impacts on politics and the country’s peace process. The Irrawaddy news crew members Ko [...]
By Karen News | July 28, 2017 Karen refugee youth took part in a politics, peace and management bootcamp this week. Over 70 people attended the three-day training, which was held at the Mae La refugee camp on the [...]
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | July 28, 2017 Only five houses have been rebuilt in a Karenni refugee camp in Thailand after a fire in the beginning of the month. According to camp leadership, [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma | July 27, 2017 Members of Burma’s Upper House of Parliament sat in session yesterday to debate potential changes to the controversial Telecommunications Act, which critics have slammed as a government and military tool used [...]
Progressive Voice (PV) | July 26, 2017 Last Friday, 21 July, 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,[1] Ms. Yanghee Lee, concluded her third country visit under the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led Government. Her [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | July 26, 2017 YANGON — Myanmar’s State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) held talks on the resettlement and schooling of internally displaced persons [...]