Joint Strategy Team | January 28, 2018 Fighting between the Myanmar Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has intensified recently in several places in Sumprabum, Tanai and Waing Maw townships in Kachin State, resulting in [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | January 28, 2018 Out of more than 1,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), over 900 will return home after taking shelter in Kyaukme to escape from the fighting in the northern Shan State. [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation | January 26, 2018 From December 31 2017 to January 7, 2018, six Burma Army battalions under all four regional military commands in Shan State launched attacks on Shan armed groups- irrespective of whether they [...]
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | January 24, 2018 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), in its effort to resolve the fundamental political problem by political means for peace in the country, had designed together the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News | January 26, 2018 As one could just enthusiastically proclaims “and then there were ten,” to the 8 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) another two, the New [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | January 25, 2018 The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) leader Gen Yawd Serk denounced the Tatmadaw’s inspection of a Shan national school and teachers in Htunt-yeing Village Tract, under [...]
By Nang Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | January 25, 2018 YANGON — The third session of the 21st-Century Panglong Peace Conference will be delayed until February to accommodate recent developments in the peace process, a spokesman for [...]
By Oliver Slow / Frontier Myanmar | January 25, 2018 Landmines have blighted thousands of innocent civilians' lives in Myanmar, which remains one of the few countries yet to sign a 1997 treaty banning their use. AS PREPARATIONS continue for [...]
Narinjara News / BNI Online | January 24, 2018 Eight men, who were receiving medical treatment at the Sittwe Hospital, have been arrested on January 23 for their involvement in the Mrauk-U riot, according to the patients’ families. U [...]
Kachinland News | January 23, 2018 On Jan 21, Burmese army troops fired several mortar rounds on Tingkawk village, located on Ledo road between Myitkyina and Danai in western Kachin state, following a battle with KIA troops. A mortar [...]