Mizzima | November 21, 2018 The Chinese embassy in Myanmar Tuesday provided humanitarian assistance to displaced persons in Kachin state, Xinhua reported. The Chinese embassy provided 160 million kyats (101,265 U.S. dollars) worth of commodities including rice, cooking oil, [...]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Watch / Progressive Voice | November 20, 2018 A delegation of religious leaders, women’s rights activists and civil society groups representing the Kachin, Shan and Ta’ang ethnic nationalities from Burma (Myanmar) completed a [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 20, 2018 Mon State — The Dawei Nationalities Party (DNP) has asked Dawei Township authorities in Tenasserim Region to lift a new ban on using their language to fashion signs for [...]
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | November 20, 2018 Eighty university students from across the country attended the opening of a meeting in Yangon yesterday aimed at finding out their views of the ongoing peace process between the [...]
By Ben Dunant / Frontier Myanmar | November 20, 2018 GOVERNMENT PAPERWORK would have you believe that a third of Myanmar’s landmass, totalling almost 50 million acres, is “vacant”, “virgin” or “fallow”. This is ostensibly idle land and its [...]
United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) and its Partner Organizations | November 19, 2018 1. The Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow & Virgin Land Manageme nt Law were enacted in 2012 and amended with more penalties in late 2017. Now, we've [...]
By Nyein Neyin / The Irrawaddy | November 20, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), a non-signatory of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), said solving problems on the ground would help to move forward the process [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | November 17, 2018 Civil society organizations, political parties, and armed groups have said that armed conflict is increasing in northern Shan State, and has been on the rise since the signing of [...]
KLN / Kachinland News | November, 17, 2018 Local sources reported that BA troops pillaged homes, burned down rice barns and killed domestic animals for food in Sut Ra and Kawng Ja villages in Njang Yang township. About two [...]
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | November 16, 2018 Myanmar's Peace Commission and the leaders of armed ethnic groups that have signed the government’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) will hold an informal meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, this [...]