A peace team led by UPWC Vice-Chairman and Minister Aung Min met with the UNFC at Woodfield Resort, Chiang Mai on 22 February. Photo: Hla Maung Shwe/Facebook
23 February 2016
A peace team led by Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC) Vice-Chairman and Minister Aung...
US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a press conference on the last day of the US-ASEAN Summit, at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, USA, 16 February 2016. Photo: NED REDWAY/EPA
23 February 2016
As he approaches the end of his two terms in office, US President Barack Obama gave an...
Displaced people at monasteries in Kyaukme Township. Photo: Sai Tun Tun Aung/WFP
23 February 2016
The European Union Delegation to Myanmar issued the following statement today, the 23...
Indonesia Navy blows up a foreign fishing vessel caught fishing illegally in Indonesian sea, at Batam Sea, Indonesia, 22 February 2016. Photo: M URIP/EPA
23 February 2016
Indonesia sank 27 impounded foreign boats on Monday, a minister said, as the world's...
A Kachin farmer in Wai Maw township in Kachin State kneeling down on a plot of land confiscated from him by a company. (Photo: Thin Lei Win/Myanmar Now) 
23 February 2016
La Laung Daung Nan vividly remembers the last day of April 2015.
Foreign tourists flocking to view the sunrise at an ancient pagoda in Bagan city, Myanmar. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
23 February 2016
Visitors to Myanmar's ancient capital Bagan will no longer be able to climb the venerated...
Refugees from northern Myanmar sit on a pile of blankets inside a monastery which has been set up as temporary refugee camp in KyaukMe, northern Shan State, Myanmar, 21 February 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
22 February 2016
The US embassy in Yangon said it was "deeply concerned" over clashes involving ethnic...
Investors watch the stock trading board at a securities exchange house in Shanghai, China. Photo: EPA
22 February 2016
Asian shares swept higher on Monday, with Shanghai leading the charge after China...
Poor slums are springing up in the suburbs of Yangon. (Photo: Connor Macdonald/Myanmar Now)
22 February 2016
Sitting in a tea-shop next door to the National League for Democracy’s Hlaing Tharyar...
Supporters arrive near temporary camps where members of community based anti-narcotic campaigners gather near a blocked area in Wine Maw, northern Kachin State, Myanmar, 21 February 2016. According to media reports, about 3,000 volunteers of a community based anti-narcotic campaign have been camping on the road since 16 February, blocked by Myanmar military and police forces who try to prevent them from destroying the fields of opium poppies. Photo: Myitkyina News Journal/EPA
22 February 2016
Thousands of anti-drug vigilantes are locked in a showdown with police and soldiers in...
Photo: Phanida
22 February 2016
Armed ethnic organizations that are members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (...
Rohingya people at the ThetKelPyin Muslim refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 12 May 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
20 February 2016
The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK this week published a new briefing paper calling on...

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