The Burmese military, notorious over the past five decades for its use of child soldiers, erected an eye-catching billboard in downtown Rangoon this week indicating a desire to clean up its image—and perhaps its practices. In a first for Burma’s armed forces, a billboard promoting a “No Child Sol...

Kayin armed groups will submit the provisions they want to amend in the 2008 Constitution to the Kayin Solidarity and Peace Committee before submitting them to the government, according to a member of the committee. "They are planning to submit the issues including the ones in the constitution to...

A network of children’s welfare hubs is to be rolled out in each township over the next five years as part of a government initiative to improve implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Department of Social Welfare is to open or expand 66 offices next year in key townsh...

The Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA) has announced that they have set up the Big Tiger Foundation with a start up amount of 100,000 Thai Baht (USD 3100), with an aim to provide medical care and basic supplies to poor patients. Multiple offices of the Foundation were inaugurated in hospit...

The All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) Secretary Sonny, told Mizzima on September 9 that they were having discussions with the Karen state government to open a liaison office in Myawaddy town in Karen state. “We came here to discuss with the Karen state government for opening a liaison ...

Myanmar has set to add a new television channel named the National Races Channel, aimed at widening the scope of the people. Test broadcasting of the channel with eight nationalities languages is to be done in mid-October and the languages include those of Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Mon, Rakhine...

Myanmar has been endeavoring to promote literacy in the country as part of its bid to raise the nation's education standard in line with the international level. Adult literacy rate in the country went up in 2013, hitting as high as 95.13 percent. It was attributed to the opening of more than ...

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...

The 8th regular separate sessions of Myanmar parliament's two houses -- Lower and Upper as well as the two-house union parliament session will be all convened on Oct. 1, state radio and TV reported, quoting an announcement of the parliament. The last 7th regular sessions of the parliament lasted ...

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...