Many people, including women, have the impression that the fairer sex have equal rights in Myanmar, but in reality, they do not, said State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. “Women often boast that they have equal rights with men. But we know that that is not actually true,” she said at a busine...

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...

To strengthen Myanmar’s private schools, an accreditation system is needed that recognises different kinds of private schools, education experts said at a seminar that discussed a draft law on private education on Saturday. U Kyaw Moe Tun, executive director of Parami Institute of Liberal Arts & ...

Lower house MP U Nyan Win Swe from Kyauk Kyi Township informed Mizzima that he will submit a proposal to allocate special funds for landmine victims welfare. “I will submit the proposal to the Bago Government Council through township administrators to allocate special funding for people disabled ...