The National Races Channel premiered on Sunday, becoming the first TV channel dedicated exclusively to Burma’s ethnic minorities which make up nearly 40 percent of the country’s 60 million people. Broadcast from Naypyidaw by state-run Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV), the new channel is curren...

armers have demanded compensation for their land confiscated and for losses of land to mining and a cement factory in Hlakar village track, in Hpa-an, Karen State. The Hlakar farmers held a meeting in the village on September 12 that decided to present their five-point demands through the Member of...

The leaders of four different Karen political parties met over two days to discuss how to merge their organisations into one for Burma’s next general election in 2015. In an effort to merge the parties, leaders of the Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party, the Karen People’s Party, the Karen State Democrac...

Less than one-quarter of all land concessions awarded to private companies have actually been developed, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation has revealed, as it called on regional governments to move faster on resolving land disputes. More than 6400 companies have been awarded concessions ...

Nine out of 10 refugees on the Thai-Burma border would prefer to resettle in third countries or stay in Thailand instead of being repatriated to Burma, according to a recent survey by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. More than 120,000 refugees have been living outside Burma in camps on the ...

ဖဲလါအီးကထိဘၢၣ်(၂၁)သီအနံၤခၢၣ်စးခံခီယၢ်ပၤလၢာ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ပဒိၣ်စၢဖှိၣ်တၢ်မၤတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်ပှၤမၤတၢ်ကမံးတံးဒီးကခၠ့ၣ်တၢ်သဘ့ျရၢ( KIO)ကရၢခံဖုလၢာ်စံးဘၣ်မံၣ်စံၣ်မၣ်လၢကစးထီၣ်က့ၤကဒီးတၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ် ဖဲလါနိၣ်ဝ့ဘၢၣ်(၃)သီန့ၣ်လီၤ. စးထီၣ်လၢကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဖီၣ်စုကဝဲၤတဖၣ်မၤဝဲခိၣ်နၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီတဖၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်သကိးဖဲ(Laizaconcludes...

The Union Peacemaking Work Committee formed by the government and the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) held peace talks for the third time in Loikaw, Kayah State on Tuesday and Wednesday. The discussions focused on four proposals submitted by the KNPP and three by the UPWC. Among the seve...

လွန်ခဲ့သောကြာသပတေးနေ့တွင်တနိုင်ငံလုံးစစ်မှန်သောအပစ်ခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးရရှိရန်အတွက်ပြည်ထောင်စုလွတ်တော်အမှတ်များကအင်စိုက်အားစိုက်ကြိုးစားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ပြည်သူလူထုများ၏အခွင့်အရေးကိုကာကွယ်ရန်အတွက်ဥပဒေတစုံတရာရေးဆွဲထားသည်ဟုလည်းအထူးအစီရင်ခံစာထဲတွင်ဖော်ပြထားသည့်အတိုင်းပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကပြောပါသည်။ ဥပဒေရေးစွဲခြင်း၏ရည်ရွယ...

A coalition of Burmese armed minority groups has agreed to continue a dialogue with the government to try to reach a nationwide cease-fire deal. Representatives of 17 armed groups and the Burmese government ended two days of talks in northern Kachin state without any concrete agreements. But the ...

Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Mikio Numata presented US$ 6.9 million cash donation to IDPs in Nay Pyi Taw on 22 March, 2013. According to the aid program in cooperation with JICA, the funds provided by the Japanese government will help UNHCR provide reliefs to IDPs across the country includi...