A Karen armed group and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) clashed in the NMSP-controlled area after the Karen armed group detained Mon villagers in Yebyu Township, Tanintharyi Region on Sunday (March 4) morning. The clash broke out in the area around Phayar-Taung, which is in the east of Ah-le-sa-k...

Karen Police burned confiscated methamphetamine tablets and opium in its attempts to fight illicit drug use. The Karen National Police Force (KNPF) under the Interior Department of the Karen National Union in Doo Pla Ya District, destroyed thousands of methamphetamine tablets (Ya Ma) and opium in an...

The government and the armed ethnic group Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) have agreed to hold another round of talks on Wednesday to discuss the group’s signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), a government spokesman told The Myanmar Times. “We’ve agreed to meet next week fo...

၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်မၤလၤကပီၤ မိၣ်ဒီကလုာ်မုၢ်နံၤပှဲၤထီၣ် (၇၁) ၀ီတ၀ီ ဖဲကမျၢၢ်ဖီကရၢၢ်, ပၠ့ၤကျဲ, မုၢ်ပျဲၤဒီးမုၢ်လ့ၢ်ဧိၤအနံၤလီၤ. တၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤအမူးတၢ်အိးထီၣ်အီၤ ခီဖျိတၢ်ယူးယီၣ်မိၣ်နီၢ်တယၢ် ဒီးကီၢ်ပယီၤဒီကလုာ်နီၢ်တယၢ် ဖဲပှၤဟဲထီၣ်ကနၣ်တၢ်ဖိ အါဒ် အါဂၤကူကၤ၀ဲမိၣ် မိၢ်လုၢ်ပၢ်လၢ်ကူးသိး အ၀ါဒီးအဂီၤ ဒီးမုာ်လၤ၀ဲတၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤအိၣ်...

၀့ၢ်တကူၣ် - ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ ဃ့ထီၣ်ပဒိၣ်လၢကတဲသကိးတၢ် တချုးလၢတၢ်စးထီၣ်တ့ကျဲမုၢ် လၢဒ၀ဲၤမုၢ်ကျိၤ၀ဲၤကွာ် ဟီၣ်က၀ီၤလီၤဆီ လၢတနီ သရံၣ်ကီၢ်ဒိၣ် ဆူကီၢ်ကၠီၣ်တဲၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၢ စးထီၣ်ဒံးဘၣ်လီၤ. လၢအလံာ်ဘိးဘၣ်ရၤလီၤဖဲမုၢ်လ့ၢ်ဧိၤအနံၤ, ကလုာ် ဒူၣ်ဖီၣ်စုက၀ဲၤအံၤစံး၀ဲ ကီၢ်ပဒိၣ်ကဘၣ်တဲသကိးတၢ်ဒီးအီၤ ဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်မၤ ထွဲထီၣ်တၢ်လဲ...

ADDIS ABABA –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, are appealing for US$80 million to provide food assistance to refugees in Ethiopia. The amount of food that refugees receive was cut by 20 percent last year below the 2,100 kilocalories per day required t...

A floor price for paddy has been set at K500, 000 for every 100 baskets of rice for the 2018 paddy harvesting period, the Myanmar Rice Federation announced Tuesday at the Myanmar Rice Federation Stakeholder Forum 2018 in Nay Pyi Taw (One basket weighs 46lb or 20.86kg). It is the first time Myanma...

Company registration fees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will be halved from K500, 000 to K250, 000 from April 1 onwards, according to a statement issued by the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) Tuesday. The latest move comes after DICA, together with the Minist...

The Union Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief, and Resettlement has provided Ks 126.9 million to internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are taking refuge in Myaing Gyi Ngu IDP camp in the Karen State’s Hlaingbwe Township. During the ceremony held at Zwekabin Hall in Hpa-an on March 19, the Depart...

THE Ma Mya Dam in Myanaung, Ayeyawady Region, is providing power to the nearby rural areas, in addition to irrigation water to the public, according to construction division 9 of the Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Department. Staff Officer U Khin Maung Than of the division said, “In ...