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The closure of Myanmar’s last independent newspaper marks a new milestone in the country’s political descent
Mar 18, 2021
Discrimination and unnecessary bureaucracy present extra barriers for survivors with autism and disabilities.
Nov 2, 2018
By Lumdau/Myanmar Now The powerful United Wa State Army has freed over 100 Christians who were detained in a recent crackdown against members of the religion in the autonomous...
Oct 4, 2018
LOIKAW — One night in 2012, in the Kayah State capital of Loikaw, a group of ethnic Karenni youths were engaged in clandestine activity. In advance of Martyrs’ Day, 19 July, they crept...
Jul 19, 2018
YANGON — US-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch has criticised slow progress in addressing historic land grabs, which continue to leave large numbers of people destitute, and...
Jul 19, 2018
YANGON — Jailed Reuters journalist Ko Wa Lone told a Yangon court on July 17 that during a police interrogation, which included sleep deprivation, police officers tried to induce him...
Jul 18, 2018
NAYPYIDAW — A gender equality proposal, outlining a 30 percent women’s quota in the peace process, was submitted to the “political” breakout session of the just-concluded Union Peace...
Jul 18, 2018
NAYPYIDAW — A faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) will not be allowed to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) because of the ethnic Naga armed group’s...
Jul 16, 2018
Doctors from Yangon’s General Hospital and Medical University are overseeing an ambitious plan to integrate and standardise ambulance services in Myanmar, which would include a central...
Jul 12, 2018
Members of a bloc of ethnic armed groups based along Myanmar’s northern border with China have given conflicting accounts of whether China persuaded them to attend a peace conference...
Jul 12, 2018
The government has ordered ethnic Rakhine people who recently settled in burned-out villages in northern Rakhine State to relocate, and has hit the founders of the new settlements with...
Jul 12, 2018
Lawyers will not be able to cross-examine U Kyin Lin, the man who gunned down National League for Democracy legal advisor U Ko Ni in January last year, because Kyi Lin claimed his...
Jul 11, 2018
A bridge over the Yangon River could transform the lives of locals commuting to the city on disaster-prone boats, but private port operators see a threat.
Jul 6, 2018
