By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 28, 2016 Actually, the Union Peace Conference (UPC) or 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is supposed to bring all warring parties into an atmosphere of peaceful negotiation that would [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Burma Link | July 4, 2016 Arakan Army (AA) Lieutenant Colonel Kyaw Han joined the army because he felt that “the military way is the final means to have a victory” and achieve freedom for his native Arakan State. [...]
By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | May 24, 2016 There have been a number of significant events in Burma in the last two weeks. However, it is difficult to discern how they might come together - what their overall [...]
Mizzima | March 27, 2016 Commander in Chief Min Aung Hlaing called for Myanmar’s military to remain a political force in the country at the 71st Armed Forces Day held in Nay Pyi Taw on Sunday. Noticeably absent from [...]
Khu Oo Reh, The Irrawaddy | January 28, 2016 In 2016,the question of lifting the on-going arms embargo and related sanctions against the Tatmadaw, as the Burma Army is known, and its civilian cronies will be revisited by Western [...]
Statement on Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the Women's League of Burma (WLB) | November 25, 2015 By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, at the 83rdsession of the 54thUnited Nations [...]
Burma Link | November 3, 2015 Chit Min Lay was 24 years old when he was arrested at his home and taken to an interrogation centre, following his participation in the 1996 and 1998 student demonstrations. Chit Min Lay [...]
Burma Link | October 28, 2015 In 1996, Chit Min Lay was a young university student full of dreams, wishing to become a literature man and a poet. He was about to finish his four-year degree at the University [...]