The Karen Department of Health and Welfare continues to push the Burma government to recognize its community health workers and to extend its health service. In its recent meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on 30 September, the Karen Department of Health and Welfare discussed with Dr. Thein Thein Htay, the d...

In his monthly radio address to the nation on 1 October, Burma’s President Thein Sein emphasised the current round of peace talks with ethnic groups, saying that the peace process was related to a long-term plan aimed at realizing national reconciliation. Thein Sein’s monthly speech was aired on ...

A Japanese aid agency has promised to provide low-interest loans to the Mon State government for road building and other infrastructure projects. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is to finance the reconstruction of a small road that runs between Tarana village in Kyaikmaraw Towns...

Ethnic affairs ministers will begin formally participating in the national peace process through the government’s peace-making committee, the ethnic affairs ministers of Karen and Mon states said. The move follows an 18 October meeting between ethnic affairs ministers and the Vice-Chair of the Peac...

Representatives from both the government’s Union Peace-making Work Committee and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) told Mizzima on 21 October that peace talks between the two parties will resume on 3 November. “Afterthe ethnic armed groups summit meeting in Laizaconcludes, KIO and governme...

ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဂ့ၢ်ဝီကိတိာ်ခိၣ်ကနုာ်လီၤဒီကခုာ်တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအပူၤခီဖျိပဒိၣ်တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်ကမံးတံးအဂ့ၢ်ကညီဒီးတလၢၤကီၢ်စဲၣ်ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဂ့ၢ်ဝီကိတိာ်ခိၣ်စံးဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်လဲၤအသးအံၤပိာ်ထွဲထီၣ်အခံဒ်လါအီးကထိဘၢၣ်(၁၈)သီတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်လၢကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဂ့ၢ်ဝီကိတိာ်ခိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်ပှၤမၤတၢ်ကမံးတံးအဘၢၣ်စၢၤအသိးစ...

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

The highway will help in smoother and faster movement of goods between these regions. “We are presently working with the governments of Myanmar and Thailand to develop the trilateral highway which hopefully will be completed soon,” Sharma said here at a CII function. The idea of the highway -...

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...

Thailand is expected to sign a visa-exemption agreement with Myanmar next month during a visit by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a Myanmar Foreign Ministry official said. 'We will sign an agreement once the Thai government has approved it. I don't know exactly when we will be able to sign but ...