The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will reserve two leading positions within the ethnic alliance for representatives of the Karen Nation Union (KNU) despite the Karen group walking out of the UNFC conference in Chiang Mai on Sunday. Speaking to DVB and other reporters at the end of t...

The President-elect of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, tells the BBC he is confident he will be sworn in next week and his rival, President Yahya Jammeh, will accept defeat.

Ethnic Literature and Culture Department and Ethnic Rights Protection Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs drove stakes to build their director’s office of Mon State on Kyaikmaraw road at Min village, Mawlamyine yesterday morning. The ceremony was attended by Union Minister Naing Thet Lwi...

The Karen People’s Party announced that policies decided at the last Karen National Union (KNU) meeting will be adhered to during its party’s presentations at the Union Peace Conference (also called 21st Century Panglong Conference) scheduled to start next Wednesday. “Briefly speaking, there are ...

The Karen National Union (KNU) has announced that it is not yet ready to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement on Union Day. Saw Mahn Mahn, joint-secretary of the KNU, one of the major rebel forces in Burma, told DVBthat in a four-day meeting from 3 to 7 February, the group’s central committee dr...