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The 14 Michaungkan demonstrators arrive at court in Kyauktada Township on the afternoon of February 26, 2015. Photo: Nan Myint/Mizzima
News
27 February 2015
Police demolish Michaungkan protest camp, make...
Yangon municipal police moved in to demolish the Michaungkan protest camp at around 3 am...
Families and friends of those addicted to alcohol often suffer. Photo: Al-Anon Family Groups
News
27 February 2015
Alcoholism meetings deal with hidden challenge
Helen May says it was after she was introduced to a local woman in Yangon struggling to...
Beijing says it is not interfering in the conflict in Myanmar's northern Shan State. The Chinese border gate of Nansan, Yunnan, China on August 30, 2009. Photo: David and Jessie/Flickr
News
26 February 2015
China stresses ‘non-interference’ in Myanmar
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei says that China forbids any organization...
Gmail is now available in the Myanmar language, according to Google.
News
26 February 2015
Gmail now available in Myanmar language
Google said February 25 that Gmail is now available in the Myanmar language, marking the...
Allegations have been made that a 17-year-old boy was forced to join the military. Here, a boy wearing white shirt (R), who was discharged from the Myanmar army, walks past a security official as he leaves after the ceremony of handover for discharged minors to parents or guardians in Yangon, Myanmar, January 18, 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
26 February 2015
Army ‘kidnaps under-age conscript in Yangon’
Two men were forcibly recruited by the Myanmar military in Yangon recently when they went...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 16, 2014. Photo: Martial Trezzini/EPA
News
26 February 2015
UN High Commissioner says ‘Myanmar needs urgently...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned that Myanmar “...
News
25 February 2015
Human rights progress ‘stalled’, says Amnesty...
Progress on human rights “stalled” in Myanmar last year, Amnesty International has said...
The two Myanmar migrant workers Ko Win Zaw Htun (L) and Ko Zaw Lin Oo (L-2), suspects in the killing of two British tourists, are escorted by police officers as they leave Koh Samui Provincial Court in Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, October 14, 2014. Photo: Sitthipong Charoenjai/EPA
News
25 February 2015
Myanmar team calls for more money for Koh Tao...
As the Myanmar embassy’s legal team seeks to get bail for the Koh Tao murder suspects, a...
Convoys have come under attack. Victims of the conflict sit on board a rescue truck as they flee the Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
25 February 2015
Dozens of female prisoners injured in Kokang...
Dozens of female prisoners were injured in a fierce firefight between rebels and soldiers...
Workers shout slogans as they protest outside their factory after a clash with police at Shwepyithar Industrial zone in Yangon, Myanmar, February 20, 2015. Myanmar police dismantled the protest sites and several people were injured during the clash between protesters and policemen. Thousands of workers are demanding a raise in their basic salary at the industrial zone. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
News
25 February 2015
Garment workers call for more strikes if demands...
Myanmar garment workers demonstrating over pay and factory conditions threatened to...
Upper House to discuss amendments to the controversial National Education Law. Four-party talks between the government, students, parliamentarians and the National Network for Education Reform over the National Education Law underway at Yangon Region Parliament headquarters on February 11, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
News
25 February 2015
Upper House to begin discussing education law...
Upper House Speaker U Khin Aung Myint announced February 24 that discussions on the bill...
Union Election Commission chairperson U Tin Aye speaks to the media during an earlier meeting, this time between the UEC and political parties at Park Royal Hotel in Yangon on February 18, 2015. Photo: UEC
Domestic
24 February 2015
Election commission tells UNA to stay out of...
The Union Election Commission has advised the United Nationalities Alliance to avoid...

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