Written by Zeyar Maw/Mizzima News | October 30,2017 The Myanmar Government and the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) based in northern Myanmar had meetings for five months but two-party talks have yet to materialize. With intervention and mediation by the [...]
Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Center (ENAC) | May 29, 2017 ENAC Briefing No. 21 The second session of the Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong was concluded on May 29, 2017 in Naypyidaw. 700 representatives of the government, parliament, [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | May 23, 2017 The Myanmar government has invited three ethnic armed groups previously denied permission by the army to attend the second session on Wednesday of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s key [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 21, 2017 As May 24, the convening of Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP) is scheduled to take off, few crucial and essential topics that [...]
Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 18, 2017 A negotiating committee representing seven ethnic armed groups in northern Burma says it intends to attend next week’s Union Peace Conference in Naypyidaw, which is being organised [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 13, 2017 Fighting has broken out again between the Burmese army and Kokang rebels near the Sino-Burmese border. The clashes coincide with a meeting between members of the Northern Alliance – [...]
By Angshuman Choudhury / The Irrawaddy | May 12, 2017 Less than a month before the commencement of the second 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), the Union government of Myanmar faces an unprecedented situation. Both the Kachin Independence Organization [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 5, 2017 Freelance reporter Min Tayza Aung recently sat down with Tar Parn La, the joint secretary and foreign relations officer of the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA). This [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 27, 2017 For weeks, since the Panghsang or Pangkham meeting of seven, non-signatory of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) at the United Wa State Party/Army [...]
Radio Free Asia | March 17, 2017 A local militia in the northern Myanmar town of Waingmaw has started clearing out refugees who have been staying on its land since 2012 when they were displaced by hostilities between ethnic [...]