Three days after Burma’s ethnic armed groups concluded a conference in a rebel-controlled area of Karen State, ethnic leaders met with the government’s chief negotiator, Minister Aung Min, on Wednesday. At the meeting, held in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, the ethnic groups’ National Cea...

လၢတၢ်ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဃူအိၣ်ဖိးဒီးတၢ်ဂံၢ်တၢ်ဘါအပူၤ,ပှၤဖီၣ်စုကဝဲၤပၢၢ်ဆှၢတၢ်ကရူၢ်ခၢၣ်စး ၁၇ ဖုထံၣ်လိာ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်သ ကိးဝဲဖဲကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်ဒ်သိးဒီးကတၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိးတၢ်ဘၣ်ဃးထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ပတုာ်တၢ်ခးအတၢ်အၢၣ်လီၤအီလီၤလၢကီၢ်ပယီၤ အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဖီၣ်စုကဝဲၤကရူၢ်တဖၣ်ဘိးဘၣ်ရၤလီၤဝဲဒၣ်လၢတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်လၢဘၣ်တၢ်မၤအီၤလၢ...

An aid worker has confirmed to Karen News that a fire broke out at Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp, Tak Province, today, burning 11 houses. A further 28 houses had their roofing removed to stop the fire from spreading. The aid worker said no one was injured. “The fire happened to occur when there was a c...

Naypyitaw has closed the list of armed groups to be invited to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) at 16, according to U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) and Minister for President’s Office yesterday. “That doesn’t mean we should leave out the remai...

ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့်အညီပြောင်းလဲမှုများကိုတွေးတောရာ၌ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးမှုများ၏အကျိုးရလဒ်များကိုလျစ်လျူမရှုသင့်ကြောင်းသမ္မတသိန်းစိန်မှစနေနေ့လတိုင်း​ ရေ ဒီယိုမိန့်ခွန်းတွင်ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။ နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးသဘောတူညီမှုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရန်အတွက်ရက်သတ်မှတ်ခြင်းပြုလုပ်ရန်အသေးစိတ်အချက်အ...

ဖဲမုၢ်ဘူၣ်အနံၤ,တလါတဘျီကွဲၤလ့လိၤတၢ်ကစီၣ်အပူၤကီၢ်ခိၣ်သ့စ့ၣ်စံးဝဲလၢတၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိးတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်အစၢအိၣ်ဖျါအံၤအပူၤတၢ်တကြၢးကွၢ်ကပၤကွံာ်တၢ်ဆိကမိၣ်ဆီတလဲက့ၤသဲစးတၢ် ဘျၢခိၣ်သ့ၣ်အံၤဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.အဝဲစံးဝဲ,တၢ်ကတၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိးတၢ်လၢကသ့ၣ်နံၤဖးသီမုၢ်နံၤမုၢ်သီလၢထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ဆဲးလီၤစုမုၢ်ကျၢၢ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.တၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိး...

RANGOON — About 500 farmers from across Burma gathered at a two-day event in Rangoon this week to call on the government to address the worsening land confiscation issue and to return farmland that was seized under the previous military regime. Desperate farmers addressed the Voice of the Farmer ...

U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union level Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC), said on Saturday, 31 August, he was confident the long advertised Nationwide Ceasefire Accord could be signed toward the end of October, according to a report by the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCS...

Ethnic parties have announced that a report to amend the Constitution shall be prepared by the National League of Democracy (NLD) together with United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) by November, after a meeting on September 7. “We shall prepare a report and release it at the Parliament and the publ...

Speaker of Myanmar's union parliament U Shwe Mann stressed the need for more reform in the country in addition to political reform, official media reported Monday. "Political reform is only not enough for democratization. Executive reform, economic reform and function reform must be made in synch...