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This photo taken on June 30, 2016 shows Mar Tuu holding a photograph of her sister Kyi Pyar Soe on the outskirts of Yangon. Enticed by work in China, hundreds of poor young Myanmar women are instead being duped into marriage, and left to scramble to get back across remote borders before they are forced into life with husbands they have never met. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Revised Anti-trafficking in Persons Law expected in early 2018
The Anti-trafficking in Persons Revised Law is expected to be approved by parliament in early 2018, said U Khin Maung Kywel, police superintendent of...
US Ambassador Mr Scot Marciel. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
US Ambassador discusses Myanmar challenges including Rakhine, media freedom
US Ambassador Mr Scot Marciel sat down with Mizzima Editor in Chief Soe Myint this week for an exclusive interview to examine ...
Photo: MOFA
State Counsellor encourages greater transparency with resource sector investors
State Counsellor H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi received representatives from the International Investors for the Mineral Development Association (IIMDA).
Wa Lone (lef) and Kyaw Soe Oo. Photo: Facebook
Journalists Feared ‘Disappeared’ - HRW
Burmese authorities should immediately release two Reuters journalists arrested in Rangoon for allegedly possessing leaked documents ...
This photo taken on June 26, 2017 shows members of the United Wa State Army jumping off from a car as they arrive in Poung Par Khem region, near the Thai and Myanmar border. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Many hurdles remain in peace process, says think tank
A new briefing by the Myanmar Insititute for Peace and Securitys (MIPS) has further highlighted the current conflicts taking place in the country, ...
Myanmar migrant laborers carrying baskets filled with salt to load into a truck after the harvest at a salt farm in the Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 05 April 2016. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
Myanmar Vice President calls for migrant worker protection
Myanmar Vice President U Myint Swe has called for giving legal protection to migrant workers, especially women and children, when laws and ...
Satellite imagery of four villages in Maungdaw township, northern Rakhine State, on November 25 and December 2, 2017.  Before: © 2017 Digital Globe After: © 2017 Digital Globe
40 more villages found to have been burned – HRW
Analysis of satellite imagery reveals new destruction of Rohingya villages during October and November 2017 in northern Rakhine State in Burma, ...
Mr. Sun presents the cash donation to Vice-Chair of the Center and Chair of the Peace Commission Dr Tin Myo Win. Photo: MNA
China donates USD 500,000 towards Peace Process
The People’s Republic of China donated USD 500,000 to National Reconciliation and Peace Center yesterday afternoon in Nay Pyi Taw, ...
MOMO elephant campaign banner on cable car. Photo: NGO
Myanmar companies support saving elephants
Two of the largest conglomerates in Myanmar – Kanbawza (KBZ) Group of Companies and Shwe Taung Group – have joined hands with VOICES FOR MOMOS, ...
Kachin refugees in Wine Maw township. Photo Hong Sar/Mizzima
Germany grants 1.1 Million USD in Humanitarian Aid
The Federal Republic of Germany has granted the World Food Programme subsidies worth one million Euros (approx.. 1,17 million USD) for humanitarian...

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