Signing the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) is not an agreement to disarm, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) said in a statement issued to mark the 71st Mon National Day. The NMSP intends to walk down the road of political dialogue by attending the upcoming Panglong peace conference, as only by...

Villagers in the Northern District of Karen State on the Thai-Burma border gathered along the Salween River for the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Dams. On March 14, the Karen River Network organized event to call for “No Dams” near the Ei Tu Hta internally displaced peoples’ ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the actions of the past days by several European countries to collectively end a standoff on the Mediterranean involving some 450 refugees and migrants who had been stranded at sea amid a battle over disembarkation. Since Saturday the governments of France, ...

The master plan for Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial hub is scheduled to be unveiled by the end of this year, according to Phyo Min Thein, Yangon region chief minister. Phyo Min Thein said at Vice President Myint Swe’s meeting with Myanmar businesses last week that the plan would consist of building ...

A development master plan for the Yangon-Hanthawaddy-Bago corridor and Yangon's southwest will be drawn up by the Department of Urban and Housing Development of the Construction Ministry and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the government announced. A project steering committ...