Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) and four ethnic media outlets signed an agreement at the MRTV office in Naypyidaw on October 18 to cooperate in the news sector. These four ethnic media outlets are Khonumthung, the Than Lwin Times, Narinjara, and the Kantarawaddy Times, which are also members ...

By Tara Fischer in Darfur and Mohamed El Fatih El Naiem in Khartoum | 26 October 2017 Twenty-five Sudanese refugee leaders are returning to their home villages for the first time this week on go-and-see visits organised by UNHCR and its government counterparts in Chad and Sudan. This follows...

Mon State attracted 109,560 foreign tourists from January to July 2016, according to Mon State’s Hotel and Tourism Department (Mawlamyine Branch). Of those travelers, 70,459 visited Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, commonly known as the Golden Rock, in Mon State’s Kyaikhto Township. “We are still working to at...

Burma’s general election will be held on Sunday, 8 November, the Union Election Commission (UEC) said on Wednesday. The announcement comes after months of speculation, and just two weeks after MPs voted down a motion to amend the constitution to allow persons with foreign family members, such as ...

The All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) and the Mon National Party (MNP), which are members of the Mon Unity Committee, will lead a political dialogue under the title ‘Reviewing the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference’. The political dialogue is slated for August 31 and September 1 at Paing...