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14 December 2023
Mizzima Weekly Magazine Issue 50, Vol. 12, December 14, 2023
Ma Wahkushee Tenner of the Women’s League of Burma, left, on visit to Canada. Photo: Inter Pares
News
12 March 2015
Call to end human rights abuse in ethnic areas
Two ethnic women from Myanmar testified at the Canadian Parliament on March 10, calling...
Police crack down on the students protest in Letpadan, Bago Region, Myanmar, March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
News
12 March 2015
UK NGO calls for review of aid in wake of police...
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government, European Union, USA and other...
PNS Zulfiquar, a Pakistan Navy frigate, seen here on a goodwill visit to Port Klang, Malaysia, in August 2009. Photo: Wikipedia
News
12 March 2015
Pakistani navy ship docks in Yangon on goodwill...
A Pakistani navy ship named “PNS Zulfiquar”, commanded by Captain Amir Mahmood, paid a...
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12 March 2015
The problem with Facebook
Facebook is supposed to bring people together. But it can be divisive and problematic. We...
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft on a test flight. Photo: Solar Impulse Project
Features
12 March 2015
Myanmar’s solar opportunity
Mission impossible. That is what the Swiss inventors and pilots Betrand Piccard and Andre...
News
12 March 2015
Myanmar groups in Malaysia protest student...
Myanmar Buddhist activists staged a protest alongside Rohingya Muslims in Kuala Lumpur,...
Policemen holding shields as they block the road in front of Yangon City Hall after a crackdown on a students' protest demanding an amendment to National Education Bill in Yangon, Myanmar, March 5, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
11 March 2015
Official inquiry to be held into protest crackdown
Myanmar state media has announced an inquiry into a Yangon protest crackdown, the first...
Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko speaks at the Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons meeting at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw on December 29, 2014. Photo: MNA
News
11 March 2015
Myanmar prepares own human rights report for UN
The leading committee for compiling the human rights report on Myanmar held their second...
Police officers at an EU-sponsored training course conducted at the Myanmar Police Force Battalion (8) at Hmawbi, north of Yangon, on November 5, 2013. Photo: Mizzima
News
11 March 2015
EU 'deeply regrets' police violence...
The European Union has criticised Myanmar after baton-wielding police dispersed a student...
Student protesters jostle with police at barricades set up by police at the students protest site in Letpadan, Bago Region on March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
News
11 March 2015
US condemns crackdown on Letpadan student rally
The United States condemned a violent police crackdown on a student rally in Myanmar on...
Luiz Kaypoe, British Minister Desmond Swayne MP, and Naw Tamla Saw in London at the end of February. Photo: KWO
News
11 March 2015
Karen women’s group ‘shocked’ by UK help for...
The Karen Women’s Organization has successfully completed a lobbying trip to the UK,...
Two student protesters are dragged by members of a pro-government paramilitary group, the so-called Swan-Arr-Shin in Myanmar, during a crackdown on a students' protest which demands amendments to the National Education Bill in Yangon, Myanmar, March 5, 2015. Photo: Lamin Tun/EPA
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11 March 2015
Undercover Mon State police monitor student...
Plain clothes police officers are closely monitoring university students protesting the...

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