The Danish Demining Group (DDG) removes two mines located near the mosque in a bustling town in South Sudan. The town is located next to a refugee camp, which is home to more than 45,000 refugees from the bordering Sudan. The high number of explosive remnants of war continues to pose a serious threa...

As with most deadlines and dates this election season, the start of the official candidate campaign period is rolling by today only partially heeded. Political parties had to miss scheduled campaign kick-off events – and the unveiling of campaign songs and slogans – because the candidate scrutiny pr...

Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 7 will start running the first KNU highway express bus route when its bus company, Doe Meik Swe, starts operating a service between Myawaddy, Rangoon and Pathein. The Doe Meik Swe bus company is a subsidiary of the Moe Ko San Company which is owned by KNU Brigad...

Myanmar still collects the least amount of tax against GDP in ASEAN. As the tax to GDP ratio for Myanmar is lower than that of its regional peers, successive governments have prioritised more efficient tax collection. Efforts to reform tax collection began in 2012 under former president U Th...

This year’s by-elections have been cancelled because the period for campaigning would take place too close to that of the general elections in 2015, Burma’s Union Election Commission (UEC) Chairman Tin Aye announced on Sunday. Addressing a gathering of political party representatives and civic le...