Frontier Myanmar | July 07, 2017 Rather than acting as apologists for the military, the government and NLD should tackle the real issues raised by the arrest of three journalists last week. SINCE THE arrest by the Tatmadaw of three [...]
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | July 07, 2017 On Karen armed forced day this week, one ethnic armed group leader sounded a cautionary note, instructing soldiers to recall that a ceasefire is not the [...]
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | July 06, 2017 More than 60,000 Myanmar workers have returned from Thailand over the past two weeks amid an exodus sparked by new labor regulations. Over half of the [...]
Frontier Myanmar | July 06, 2017 The NLD has not only made little progress on the National Land Use Law, it has also shown little inclination to follow the policy. OF ALL the legacy challenges facing the current government, [...]
United Nations Federal Council (Union of Burma) | June 29, 2017 The Second Congress of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) was held from June 20 to 29 in Chiangmai, Thailand. In holding the first part of the Congress [...]
By Shin Wang Chau / Myanmar Times | July 03, 2017 A joint statement issued by 61 national and international human right organisations urge the Myanmar government and parliament to repeal Section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunications Law and [...]
Tribal Action Group and Burma Link | July 3, 2017 120,000 Kachin IDPs (internally displaced people) struggle to survive on 6.5 US dollars per month as the Burma Army continues attacking villages and committing violations likely amounting to war [...]
By Joe Kumbun / Mizzima | July 3, 2017 The civil war which continues to rage in Kachin State has been going on for six years. The conflict started on 9 June2011, and since then a ceasefire has not [...]
Progressive Voice | June 29, 2017 This year’s World Refugee Day – 20 June 2017 – brought into focus the pressing and at times tragic issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Myanmar[1]. With the peace process [...]
Joint statement by 61 Burma/Myanmar and international human rights organizations | June 30, 2017 Concerned by reports that the Burma/Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the Telecommunications Law, 61 national [...]