By Aye Nai for Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 03, 2016 The military is refusing to cooperate in the investigation into the rape and murder of two Kachin teachers in northern Shan State Maran Lu Ra, 20, and [...]
By Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | June 03, 2016 The following report is the outcome of the 1 ½ hour meeting between the 21st Century Panglong Conference Preparatory Committee (21 CPCPC) headed by Dr Tin Myo Win [...]
By Phanida for Mizzima News | June 02, 2016 The new peace negotiating team created by the NLD-led government will have an informal meeting with the ethnic armed organisations that did not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), on [...]
By Phanida for Mizzima News | June 02, 2016 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) had a meeting on 1June in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to discuss ongoing fighting between the SSA [...]
By Mon News Agency | June 02, 2016 The Nationalities Brotherhood Federation (NBF) is urging the inclusion of all registered ethnic political parties in the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference, in accordance with provisions of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement [...]
By the Shan Human Rights Foundation | June 01, 2016 Torture, extrajudicial killing, and use of civilians as human shields by Burma Army during new offensive against SSPP/SSA near Upper Yeywa dam site in Kyaukme During May 2016, the Burma [...]
By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | June 1, 2016 The Myanmar Times has a report today on the long-delayed religion and ethnic population breakdowns from the 2014 Burma national census. According to U Myint Kyaing, from the Ministry of [...]
By Burma Link | June 1, 2016 Thazun is a courageous, beautiful and talented young Arakanese [Rakhine] woman who talks openly about her life and experiences. Despite being forced to spend her childhood separated from her politically active father, [...]
Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 31, 2016 The Aung San Suu Kyi-headed Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), which is made up of Union Government, Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and Political Parties, with [...]
Paing Soe, DVB | May 30, 2016 Two ethnic Ta’ang civil society organisations have voiced concern over ethnic tensions with Shan communities following a protest in northern Shan State on the weekend. On Saturday, around 2,000 Shan residents in [...]