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Soldiers from the United Wa State Army patrol the near deserted streets of Nandeng in the Wa region of Myanmar. Photo: AFP
UWSA to change leadership
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is set for its biggest leadership change in a quarter century, senior sources told Reuters.
Photo: U.S. Embassy Rangoon
US Ambassador celebrates bilateral farming engagement
To ring in the New Year, U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel welcomed partners from the Myanmar and ...
A man uses the internet with a mobile phone in front of Telenor's cheap sim card advertising in Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Liberalisation of telecom sector contributed to Myanmar’s economic growth
An expert symposium held on 12 January in Myanmar's capital, attributed the liberalisation of ...
Customers at a coffee shop in Yangon watch a live television broadcast. Photo: AFP
France’s Canal+ to launch pay TV service in Myanmar
France’s Canal+ group has signed a deal with local media group Forever to launch a pay TV service in Myanmar, ...
Visa welcomes opening of Myanmar’s domestic payments industry
Visa, the leading global payments technology company, has welcomed today’s announcement from ...
Yanghee Lee (R), the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, greets a Kachin ethnic woman with a child at the MaiNar KBC camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, 10 January 2017. Yanghee Lee is in Myanmar on a 12-day visit to Kachin and Rakhine States in Myanmar. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
UN special rapporteur visits Internally Displaced camps in Kachin State
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Ms Yanghee Lee and ...
Young men browse their Facebook wall on their smartphones as they sit in a street in Yangon. Photo: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP
One million new jobs needed for young people in the next four years
A new census report reveals that despite its young population, Myanmar must position itself well ...
Photo: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network
Conserving Protected Indigenous Karen Landscape
The Salween Peace Park, an indigenous Karen landscape conservation initiative dedicated to the conservation of ...
In this photograph taken October 13, 2016, armed rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group inspect the frontline after it was hit by a military bomb during two days of fighting with the Myanmar military near Laiza in Kachin State. Photo: Hkun Lat/AFP
Myanmar military takes four KIA outposts
Seven Kachin Independence Army troops (KIA) were killed as the Myanmar Army took over four more outposts ...
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Buddhist hardliners attempt to stop Myanmar Muslim ceremony
Hardline Buddhist nationalists tried to stop a Muslim religious ceremony in Yangon on Sunday, ...

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