By Min Thu Tha / Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) | September 5, 2016 The United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC) continues to stick to with the policy for tripartite talks in order to ink a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA), according to [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 4, 2016 The Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), held from 31 August to 3 September, was supposed to be Aung San Suu Kyi’s deliberation of her major [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 5, 2016 When Saw Eh Doh Moo fled to Thailand during an outbreak of fighting in his village, he wasn’t scared — but he was exhausted and hungry. “I was used to hearing [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 5, 2016 The Burmese military continues to reinforce its troop strength in SSPP/SSA territory, despite calls to seek an end to the conflict by the ethnic armed group at last week’s Union [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | September 5, 2016 The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), a splinter group of Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, has threatened to take action against the Burma Army and the Border Guard Forces (BGF) if they [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 5, 2016 Myanmar’s peace commission has sent a written apology to the head of the country’s largest armed ethnic group, whose delegates stormed out of a major peace conference because of a mix-up regarding [...]
Burma News International (BNI)| September 5, 2016 In a motion submitted to the Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong yesterday, Karen armed groups requested for the government to adhere to international standards during the repatriation of refugees from camps in [...]
Karen News | September 2, 2016 Funding cuts have decreased food rations, negatively impacted already weakened health care and education systems, and a resettlement process has taken many in community leadership roles before replacements can be adequately trained. Refugees feel [...]
By Amrita Dey / Myanmar Times | August 30, 2016 Newly democratic Myanmar is all set to launch its 21st-century Panglong Conference on August 31. State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed that her government is keen [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 2, 2016 Nine delegates from Myanmar’s most powerful armed ethnic group walked out of peace negotiations on Thursday because of an apparent mix-up regarding badges, causing a minor glitch in the government’s efforts to [...]