By Pyae Thet Phyo and Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | May 29, 2017 The government and ethnic armed groups have failed to reach an agreement on the issues of secession and self-determination in the final day of [...]
By Sithu Aung Myint / Frontier Myanmar | May 28, 2017 Constitutional reform was once the overriding priority of the National League for Democracy but the party has put the issue on the back burner since it formed government. [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 26, 2017 As hundreds of delegates gather in Naypyidaw this week for a high-level peace summit, a spokesman for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has said his people are ready to [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 25, 2017 State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will meet with seven allied ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on the sidelines of the ongoing [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | May 24, 2017 Lisu National Development Party (LNDP) issued a statement on April 21 accusing the Kachin Independence Organization as a terrorist organization carrying out arbitrary killings, collecting illegal money and recruiting new soldiers. In [...]
By Nyein Nyein & Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy | May 24, 2017 NAYPYIDAW — Burma Army Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing has called the demands of some ethnic armed groups “unrealistic” and described them as “far beyond [...]
By Nyan Hlaing Lynn / Frontier Myanmar | May 24, 2017 THE SECOND 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference was due to convene in Nay Pyi Taw on May 24, nearly four months later than originally scheduled. It will [...]
Karen News | May 24, 2017 Today, while the peace dialogue in Nay Phyi Daw resumes for its second round, displaced Karen villagers in remote areas of northern Karen State staged a protest over the Burma Army occupying their [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | May 23, 2017 The Myanmar government has invited three ethnic armed groups previously denied permission by the army to attend the second session on Wednesday of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s key [...]
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | May 22, 2017 The Karen National Union (KNU) has announced it will help lobby ethnic leaders to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement. Members of the KNU Central Standing Committee said on [...]