Naypyitaw has closed the list of armed groups to be invited to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) at 16, according to U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) and Minister for President’s Office yesterday. “That doesn’t mean we should leave out the remai...

ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့်အညီပြောင်းလဲမှုများကိုတွေးတောရာ၌ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးမှုများ၏အကျိုးရလဒ်များကိုလျစ်လျူမရှုသင့်ကြောင်းသမ္မတသိန်းစိန်မှစနေနေ့လတိုင်း​ ရေ ဒီယိုမိန့်ခွန်းတွင်ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။ နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးသဘောတူညီမှုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရန်အတွက်ရက်သတ်မှတ်ခြင်းပြုလုပ်ရန်အသေးစိတ်အချက်အ...

ဖဲမုၢ်ဘူၣ်အနံၤ,တလါတဘျီကွဲၤလ့လိၤတၢ်ကစီၣ်အပူၤကီၢ်ခိၣ်သ့စ့ၣ်စံးဝဲလၢတၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိးတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်အစၢအိၣ်ဖျါအံၤအပူၤတၢ်တကြၢးကွၢ်ကပၤကွံာ်တၢ်ဆိကမိၣ်ဆီတလဲက့ၤသဲစးတၢ် ဘျၢခိၣ်သ့ၣ်အံၤဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.အဝဲစံးဝဲ,တၢ်ကတၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိးတၢ်လၢကသ့ၣ်နံၤဖးသီမုၢ်နံၤမုၢ်သီလၢထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ဆဲးလီၤစုမုၢ်ကျၢၢ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.တၢ်တၢၣ်ပီၣ်သကိး...

RANGOON — About 500 farmers from across Burma gathered at a two-day event in Rangoon this week to call on the government to address the worsening land confiscation issue and to return farmland that was seized under the previous military regime. Desperate farmers addressed the Voice of the Farmer ...

U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union level Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC), said on Saturday, 31 August, he was confident the long advertised Nationwide Ceasefire Accord could be signed toward the end of October, according to a report by the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCS...

Ethnic parties have announced that a report to amend the Constitution shall be prepared by the National League of Democracy (NLD) together with United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) by November, after a meeting on September 7. “We shall prepare a report and release it at the Parliament and the publ...

Speaker of Myanmar's union parliament U Shwe Mann stressed the need for more reform in the country in addition to political reform, official media reported Monday. "Political reform is only not enough for democratization. Executive reform, economic reform and function reform must be made in synch...

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...

Around 20,000 jobs have been created in Burma during the current fiscal year thanks to the increase in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to government data. In the first five months of the 2013-14 fiscal year (April to August inclusive), FDI topped US$1.8 billion, mostly focused in the g...

MOULMEIN — Burma’s ethnic minorities will not attempt to secede from the union if granted equal rights, according to the ethnic Mon pro-democracy leader Min Ko Naing, who spoke during a landmark Mon peace conference over the weekend. Min Ko Naing, who was born in Mudon Township, Mon State, made t...