Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
By KO HTWE Liaison teams representing the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the Burmese government’s Peace-making Work Committee concluded a two-day meeting in Myitkyina on Tuesday with at least one mediator saying hopes are high that negotiations will...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
RFA Myanmar has vowed to step up its battle against human trafficking by doing more to check the problem at home and collaborating in preventive efforts with the U.S. and its Southeast Asian neighbors. Home Affairs minister Ko Ko said the authorities would also...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
RFA Myanmar’s Kachin rebel leaders have agreed to meet with top government peace negotiators next month in a bid to forge a cease-fire agreement that could pave the way for a nationwide peace accord encompassing all of the country’s armed ethnic groups, negotiation...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
By Eleven Myanmar/Asia News Network MYANMAR – Myanmar will hold a completely free and fair national election in 2015, the election commission chairman told reporters in Yangon on Saturday. Tin Aye, chairman of the Union Election Commission, said a strategic plan...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Melissa Crouch, NUS Major changes have already been made to the legal system in Myanmar over the last two years. The next 10 years will be crucial to the country’s transition to a democratic legal system. As the reform process progresses, there is an urgent...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
by Agence France-Presse PRAGUE, Czech Republic – The Dalai Lama on Tuesday, September 17, urged Myanmar monks to act according to their Buddhist principles, in a plea to end the deadly violence against the country’s Muslim minority. “Those Burmese monks,...
