Representatives of the Myanmar Military proposed to set Karen State as a pilot area for removing landmines at the Union Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC-U) at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon yesterday, state media reported. Representatives of the ethnic armed organ...

The Mon National Party (MNP) and the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) have agreed to merge during the meeting held at the AMRDP office in Mawlamyine on July 21 and elected Nai Tin Aung as the chair of the new party. “The merger of the two parties has been finalized. The main agreement was t...

YANGON—About 250 newly displaced Arakanese and ethnic Chin from Chin State’s Paletwa Township were driven from their homes into neighboring Bangladesh last week by fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA). Some of the children in the group are reportedly gravely ill as t...

A bank branch in a Dzaleka Refugee Camp – the first of its kind in the world to be set up in a refugee camp is providing banking services and credit to residents, many of who are setting up their own businesses.