United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | May 23, 2017 The Central Executive Committee meeting (extended) of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) was held from May 22 to 23. The meeting discussed the future work programs, including the current [...]
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | May 22, 2017 The Karen National Union (KNU) has announced it will help lobby ethnic leaders to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement. Members of the KNU Central Standing Committee said on [...]
By Waguru Mon / Mon News Agency (MNA) | May 10, 2017 When a truck crashed through a Thanbyuzayat traffic circle last month, destroying a golden Sheldrake sculpture, many Mon people saw their feelings of persecution embodied. The Sheldrake is [...]
By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 11, 2017 Residents in southern Shan State’s Mong Nong sub-township are claiming that their lands have been seized by the Burmese military. A local source who wished to [...]
Sai Wansai | May 4, 2017 Is Revitalization of the 1961 Federal Amendment Proposal the Way to Go? Introduction: The Contemporary Impasse With the Union Peace Conference, known as the “21st Century Panglong”, rescheduled to start on 24 May, [...]
By Lama La Rip / Kachinland News | April 10, 2017 Needless to mention that water is a source of life for human being and all life forms, and it is in fact a universal truth. The country of [...]
Frontier Myanmar | April 2, 2017 UPDATED 5:30pm The Union Election Commission has confirmed the National League for Democracy’s upset loss in the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Chaungzon following Saturday’s by-elections. The NLD government’s decision to name a bridge [...]
By Wonsa Mon / Mon News Agency | March 23, 2017 As the Wa continue to push fellow ethnic armed groups to abandon the nationwide ceasefire agreement and start negotiations anew, the movement has encountered resistance in Mon State. [...]
By Aow Mon / Mon News Agency | March 22, 2017 Several thousand people in Mon State joined a March 19 protest against a parliamentary decision to name a bridge after Bogyoke Aung San in spite of local opposition. [...]
March 10, 2017 "Unrecognised Leaders, Tomorrow’s Hope: Raising the Voices of Forgotten Youth” is a documentary film by Burma Link, the Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) and the Karen Youth Organisation (KYO). The documentary amplifies the voices of ethnic [...]