By Ko Aung / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) / May 11, 2017 The Arakan National Party (ANP) has announced that its decision on whether or not to participate in the 21st Century Panglong Conference’s second round will be [...]
By Angshuman Choudhury / The Irrawaddy | May 12, 2017 Less than a month before the commencement of the second 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), the Union government of Myanmar faces an unprecedented situation. Both the Kachin Independence Organization [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) / May 10, 2017 The peace process that is scheduled to pick up again on May 24, known as Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), now seems [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 9, 2017 In a large shakeup that could spell trouble for the peace process, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIA) and the Wa National Army (WNA) have resigned from the powerful ethnic bloc, the [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 8, 2017 The call into question for the existence of the ethnic alliance begins with when Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) whose leader is the current-president of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), forwarded [...]
Joint Strategy Team | May 5, 2017 Intense fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) took place on 2nd May 2017 near KaungKhe, Pan San, and Namhom villages in Nam Kham Township. The [...]
By Tsa Doi la / Kachinland News | May 8, 2017 In KIA’s Administrative Region east of the Irrawaddy river, the Burmese army troops belonging to 3rd and 21st Military Operations Command have joined the Southern Western Command (Pathein-based) [...]
Sai Wansai | May 4, 2017 Is Revitalization of the 1961 Federal Amendment Proposal the Way to Go? Introduction: The Contemporary Impasse With the Union Peace Conference, known as the “21st Century Panglong”, rescheduled to start on 24 May, [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | May 2, 2017 BAN MAE SALIT, Thailand — Community workers are busy with meetings, travel, and workshops as Burma prepares for the repatriation of some 98,000 refugees living on the Thai-Burma [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 5, 2017 Freelance reporter Min Tayza Aung recently sat down with Tar Parn La, the joint secretary and foreign relations officer of the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA). This [...]