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PINLAUNG, Shan State — Visitors to Pinlaung, a hilly town perched 1,500 metres above sea level in the Pa-O Self-Administered Zone of southern Shan State, are greeted with the scent of tealeaves....
YAMETHIN, Mandalay Region — Workers prised grapes from rows trained on Y-shaped trellises, loading them into their baskets, while vehicles weighted with lugs of fresh grapes left the vineyard one...
Yamethin Township in Mandalay Region is the largest grape-growing area in Myanmar.
Though grapes can be cultivated in many parts of Myanmar, different regions—with differing climates and soil...
In 1934, when the British built the Ava Bridge, spanning the Irrawaddy River between Sagaing and Ava (or Inwa) close to Mandalay, the poet Nandawshay Hsaya Tin composed a lament for the sampan...
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 right not to be “...
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 criminal...
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 in the capital...
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 call centre...
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 core demand...
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 Conference in...
