Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 3, 2017 A community leader in northern Shan State’s Hsipaw Township was shot dead by an unknown gunman or group on Sunday, according to local source. Sai Kyaw Sein, the headman [...]
By Htoo Thant / Myanmar Times | March 2, 2017 The military is investigating claims by international media that soldiers had violated human rights in Rakhine State, said Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Mya [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | March 1, 2017 The Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) met with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday to discuss the group’s terms for a nationwide [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | February 28, 2017 State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the representatives of the ethnic armed bloc’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will meet on Wednesday in Naypyidaw, both sides confirmed. The [...]
Shwe Aung / DVB | February 28, 2017 Several ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have decided they will not sign the accord and instead are looking to engage in alternative-track peace [...]
By Shoon Naing / Myanmar Times | February 27, 2017 At the memorial service in Yangon's Bahan township and organised by NLD for the two victims, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi referred to U Ko Ni as a close [...]
DVB | February 27, 2017 The upcoming peace talks in Naypyidaw are an opportunity to draft a blueprint for a future federal union in Burma, according to the secretary of the government’s Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), which [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News | February 27, 2017 Burma’s military has intervened in plans for Shan National Conference (SNC), insisting that state capital Taunggyi cannot be used as a venue for the forum and instead directing organizers to [...]
Karen News | February 24, 2017 With the government’s gender quota in peace process events continuing to fall far short, the Karen Women Organization has announced plans to help bolster women’s participation at all levels of peace events. “All [...]
By Min Sit Ye Naing / DVB | February 23, 2017 All ethnic armed groups should be included in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), according to Nai Hongsa, the vice-chairman of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), which is [...]