The joint Karen-Shan technical team and the government established Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) completed the first draft of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord during a 2-day meeting which ended yesterday, 12 September, according to Sao Yawd Serk, leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan Stat...

President U Thein Sein held talks with the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society Group led by U Min Ko Naing at the meeting hall of farmer educative mechanized farming model plantation (500-acre) here this morning. They held a cordial discussion on emergence of all-inclusive political process for en...

The Ministry of Immigration and Population is discussing a proposal with armed ethnic groups to take the 2014 census in insecure places, said Minister Khin Yi. The proposed move was revealed during a briefing on the 2014 nationwide census, held in Yangon on September 15. “Priority will be given to...

Myanmar’s Kachin rebel leaders have agreed to meet with top government peace negotiators next month in a bid to forge a cease-fire agreement that could pave the way for a nationwide peace accord encompassing all of the country’s armed ethnic groups, negotiation committee members said Tuesday. Th...

Myanmar has called for all stake holders to cooperate in taking first nationwide census in three decades in 2014 for working out national development plan. Minister of Immigration and Population U Khin Yi spoke out to the media that the 12-day census taking, using a work force of 120, 000, will b...

The government held a meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday to discuss land confiscation cases included the report from the parliamentary Farmland Investigation Commission. It has promised to solve these issues within a year. During the meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Myint Hlaing said ...

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...

Shan, Karenni and Mon delegates have concluded a three-day meeting in Taunggyi by issuing a statement calling for a nationwide ceasefire and ethnic rights. The Trust-building for Peace Forum was held on 21– 23 September, and was attended by a total of 331 individuals including representatives of ...