By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint & Nyein Nyein/The Irrawaddy | October 27, 2017 YANGON – The Myanmar government will provide food supplies for internally displaced persons (IDPs) if requested, said U Zaw Htay, director-general of the State Counselor Office. Leaders [...]
Saw Khar Su Nyar/Karen News | October 28, 2017 Amid increasing quarrying projects that threaten to destroy the natural environment, residents have banded together to form a conservation network protecting mountains in Karen and Mon states. The Natural Mountain [...]
By Hein Ko Soe / Frontier Myanmar | October 27, 2017 YANGON - Ethnic minority researchers have called on the government to halt and review planned natural resource extraction projects in minority areas to avoid further conflicts with communities. [...]
Kyaw Zwa Moe/The Irrawaddy| October 23, 2017 Without the military’s collaboration, the democratic transition in Myanmar will go nowhere. Like it or not, it’s the realpolitik of the country and no one can discard that reality. Unlike most countries [...]
Karen News on Vimeo | October 20, 2017 International support for displaced people in northern Karen State stopped at the end of September 2017. Residents of the internally displaced people’s camp, Ei Tu Hta in the Papun district of Karen [...]
Karen Organization USA | October 19, 2017 When: November 6, 2017 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Location: The Mall (Whitehouse), Washington DC Lincoln, Nebraska 9:00AM Note: This is not a protest, but instead a gathering to support the [...]
Progressive Voice | October 18, 2017 A new report by the UN Human Rights Office based on interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that fled the latest Myanmar[1] Army crackdown reaffirms the reports from media and human rights organizations of terrible suffering [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald News | October 16, 2017 The second anniversary of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was held on 15 October 2017 in Naypyitaw at the Myanmar International Convention Center – 1, attended by State Counselor Aung [...]
By Nyein Nyein/ The Irrawaddy | October 12, 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Mae Tao Clinic (MTC) launched a fundraising campaign to help continue its services to some 250,000 people along the Thailand-Myanmar border who are at risk of losing [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | 10 October 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Karen National Union (KNU) leaders have urged the government to consider the administration of areas controlled by the ethnic armed group as outlined in the nationwide ceasefire agreement [...]