Negotiations over the final draft of the ceasefire agreement between the National Ceasefire Co-ordination Team and the Union Peace-Making Working Committee will be held in about two weeks’ time, said U Hla Maung Shwe of the Myanmar Peace Center on August 3. U Hla Maung Shwe spoke to Mizzima after...

Japanese government officials and donor organizations met with government advisors, Karen State officials and Karen rebel commanders to discuss the possible implementation of Japanese-funded development projects in rebel-controlled areas during the peace process, a government advisor has said. Th...

The government will announce initial results from the first nationwide census in 30 years at the end of this month, with data on population and development indices released first, according to Ministry of Immigration and Population. Population, family registeration lists, data collectors and regi...

Myeik, 4 Aug — Region and state governments are supervising regional development tasks as their one of the functions.Construction of roads and bridges are laying sound foundations for development of the regions and states. It is because roads and bridges are playing a key role in development of tran...

Yangon, 5 Aug — According to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), a community infrastructure project was implemented last year contributing to the development and rehabilitation in ethnic minority areas in Myanmar. The project was funded by Japanese government and implemented...

LAIZA, Kachin State — An alliance of ethnic armed groups wrapping up a meeting in Laiza said they had agreed to make troop repositioning and joint monitoring of a future national ceasefire agreement a priority in their negotiations with the government. The National Ceasefire Coordination Team (NC...

တနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးညှိနှိုင်းရေးအသင်းနှင့်ပြည်ထောင်စုငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဖော်ဆောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းကော်မတီတို့အကြားအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးစာချုပ်အပြီးသတ်လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုး နိုင်ခြင်းနှင့်ပက်သက်၍ညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေးမှုများကိုနှစ်ပတ်တာအချိန်အတောအတွင်းကျင်းပနိုင်လိမ့်မည်ဟုမြန်မာငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးစင်တာမှဦးလှမောင်ရွ...

More than 5 million people have signed a petition to amend the Constitution, in what National League for Democracy chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi hailed as a breakthrough for democracy in Myanmar. She was speaking at press conference yesterday organised by the NLD and the 88 Generation Peace and Op...

Telenor will mark the launch of its service next month by putting 10 million SIM cards on the market, a company spokesperson told Mizzima on August 5. The long-awaited announcement comes just days after Ooredoo officially launched its service on August 2. Telenor Myanmar public relations offic...

ဖဲတၢ်တၢၣ်ပိၣ်သကိးဖဲဝ့ၢ်လဲၣ်စၣ်ကခၠ့ၣ်ကီၣ်စဲၣ်လၢလွံၢ်နံၤတနံၤဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ပှၤပၢၢ်ဆၢတၢ်ကရၢဖိတဖၣ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ကိၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ကတုာ်တၢ်ခးမၤသကိးတၢ်ကရူၢ်(NCCT)မၤဝံၤက့ၤဝဲတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်ယူာ်အနံၤဒိးစံးဝဲဒၣ်လၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်ကတဲာ် ကတီၤအသးလၢကစိာ်ခီဝဲအဝဲသ့ၣ်အတၢ်ကတိၤသကိးအဆၢဆူကိၢ်ပယီၤပဒိၣ်ဒီးပှၤဂုၤပှၤဂၤလၢအမၤသကိးတၢ်လတၢ်သူၣ်ထ...