Frontier Myanmar | April 2, 2017 UPDATED 5:30pm The Union Election Commission has confirmed the National League for Democracy’s upset loss in the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Chaungzon following Saturday’s by-elections. The NLD government’s decision to name a bridge [...]
By KIC / Burma News International (BNI) | March 31, 2017 After extensive discussions and over a week of debates, the Karen National Union finally has a new charter setting out its governing principles and administration. The KNU, one [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | March 31, 2017 Burma’s longest running ethnic armed organization, the Karen National Union (KNU), began its struggle with a clear political purpose. It was starting a “revolution,” and under revolutionary circumstances, [...]
By Min Min / Mizzima | March 31, 2017 Five members of the armed ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), the State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi announced on March 30. [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | March 29, 2017 Northeastern Myanmar’s Kachin state has been rocked by ongoing clashes between the government military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), since 2011, when a cease-fire deal collapsed. The KIA, which controls [...]
Radio-Free Asia (RFA) | March 28, 2017 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s Kachin state will only be able to return to their homes when all stakeholders work together in pursuit of ethnic peace, the country’s de facto leader [...]
Kachinland News | March 29, 2017 Burma’s state counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Myitkyina early Tuesday morning for a one-day visit and met with leaders of Kachin religious organizations, culture and literature associations, and members of [...]
By Ewan Cameron / Frontier | March 28, 2017 The role of culture in education is often a controversial subject. In Myanmar, the debate is largely focused on the language of instruction, with representatives of ethnic minorities pushing for [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 27, 2017 For weeks, since the Panghsang or Pangkham meeting of seven, non-signatory of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) at the United Wa State Party/Army [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | March 27, 2017 Two villagers were arbitrarily arrested by Burma Army Border Guard Force (BGF) troops in Mong Yawng, eastern Shan State, during March 13-18, 2017. On March 12, at 8 [...]