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13 December 2023
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Philip Blackwood (C), with U Tun Thurein and U Htut Ko Ko Lwin being taken to court on March 17, 2015. They were sentenced to two and a half years in jail over the posting of an image of Buddha wearing headphones on Facebook. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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26 March 2015
Petition seeks to free ‘Buddha bar’ trio
Supporters of imprisoned VGastro Pub managers Mr Philip Blackwood, U Tun Thurein and U...
Women are under threat in conflict zones in Myanmar, according to Women's League of Burma. Women preparing plastic bags for transplanting teak and iron timber tree seedlings in In Gan village, Kachin State. Photo: OXFAM Hong Kong
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25 March 2015
Women’s group submits human rights report to UN
Women’s League of Burma submitted a human rights report, including the violent police...
Myanmar nationals walk from Myanmar on their way to Thailand on the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge at Myawaddy-Mae Sot. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
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25 March 2015
Myawaddy frets over Thai fuel shortage
Myanmar soldiers on March 24 closed ports on their side of the Moei River next to Mae Sot...
A Kokang ethnic soldier standing guard outside a hotel as journalists and diplomats attend press conference at the hotel in Myanmar-China border town Laukkai, Myanmar on September 9, 2009. Photo: Khin Maung Win/EPA
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25 March 2015
‘Chinese mercenaries’ recruited by Kokang rebels...
Rebel forces fighting Myanmar troops in the Kokang border region of Shan state are...
A Buddhist monk is treated for severe burns by a medic in Monywa in December 2012 following a police crackdown on protesters. PHOTO: Hein Htet/Mizzima
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25 March 2015
Police reject lawsuit over monk protest burns:...
Police in Myanmar have rejected a lawsuit by monks who suffered phosphorus burns at the...
Amyotha Hluttaw, the upper house of the Myanmar parliament. Photo: Mizzima
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25 March 2015
Upper house debates controversial education law
Myanmar’s upper house of parliament began discussions on March 24 on amendments to the...
A total of 69 of students and supporters are taken back to prison after a hearing at Letpadan Township Court on March 25, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
News
25 March 2015
Student activists arrive at court for hearing
Dozens of Myanmar activists arrived at court for a hearing in the central town of...
Eleven Media's graphic used in their publications to express support for journalists in Myanmar. Photo: Eleven Media
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24 March 2015
Eleven Media, others to boycott IPI media...
The Eleven Media Group and several other local media organizations plan to boycott the...
The Myanmar military has been attacking Kachin positions in Kachin State, despite ongoing peace talks. Myanmar army soldiers on a trail in Kachin State. Photo: Kachin Soldiers
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24 March 2015
Kachin offensive expands, despite peace talks
Kachin fighters say the government has expanded its offensive against them while...
The 3rd Ethnic Media Conference in Hakha, Chin State from March 18 to 20, 2015. 
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24 March 2015
Ethnic media worried over ‘lack of press freedom’
Ethnic based and private media groups in Myanmar have raised concerns about increased...
A party at the revered Secretariat Building as stirred controversy. Photo Credit: Aye Ne Win
News
24 March 2015
Elite party at Myanmar historic site stirs...
A glitzy private party for the Myanmar elite at a monument long closed to the public has...
People on their way to the funeral service of Tun Tun, 36, who was killed during clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Mandalay on July 4, 2014. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
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23 March 2015
‘Hidden hands’ stoked Mandalay communal violence...
The Justice Trust has just released a report, “Hidden Hands Behind Communal Violence in...

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