Chin World / BNI Online | October 2, 2018 The External Parliament Anti-Corruption Commission’s secretary U Kyi Lwin said the Chin State government seems to be creating chaos in the country by neglecting the commission’s demand to give a [...]
Narinjara / BNI Online | October 2, 2018 Rakhine youths will stage a protest and make six demands during the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip to Japan. The Arakan Youth Association – Japan ’s secretary Ko [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | October 2, 2018 The locals fled their Kutkai Township village after shells landed nearby during recent battles between ethnic armed groups and the Burma Army. Nearly 200 people internally displaced by armed [...]
By Saw Kyaw Khwee / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | October 1, 2018 The Australian Karen Organization (AKO) said it supports the efforts to urge the UN to refer the Tatmadaw to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
By Kyaw Thu / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 1, 2018 Civil society organizations and local residents have called on the Myanmar government to cancel the U.S. $3.6 billion Chinese-financed Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin [...]
Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | October 1, 2018 Fighting broke out between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) in Muse and Kukai townships in northern Shan State over the weekend, displacing around [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 28, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—To resolve the current standoff over the issue of non-secession, observers of the peace process urged the government at a stakeholders meeting in Yangon on Friday to [...]
By Khup Khup / Chin World / BNI Online | September 28, 2018 Local authorities are carrying out a project to erect a statue of Bogyoke Aung San at a cost of Ks 7 million inside a park in [...]
Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) | September 27, 2018 (New report details current human rights concerns in Chin State, Myanmar) (Bangkok, Sept 27th 2018) — On the 13 June 2018 the UNHCR officially confirmed that Chin refugees from Myanmar were [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 27, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has recently detained almost 100 Christian pastors and conscripted bible students into its ranks as fighters in self-declared autonomous areas bordering China and Thailand in Shan state, [...]