A group of students and activists came onto the streets of Yangon at 2 pm in sympathy with the protesters who had been beaten in a melee of violence by police earlier in the day in Letpadan. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
11 March 2015
Riot police were quick to crack down on a march in Hledan market in Yangon, beating...
Myanmar military troops march along a deserted road in Chin Shwe Haw town of Kokang self-administered area, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 16, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
11 March 2015
China warned over escalating violence between Myanmar's military and rebel forces after a...
Myanmar - on a UK Foreign Office blacklist - may have been a recipient of UK-supplied riot control equipment, according to a UK newspaper report. Here Kosovo police officers fire tear gas during clashes at a demonstration in Pristina, Kosovo, January 27, 2015. Photo: EPA
10 March 2015
The UK government has approved the sale of £16 million [K16 billion] of crowd-control and...
 A Myanmar woman drives rides a tricycle as she crosses into China at the China-Myanmar, Kyegaung border gate, in Ruili, Yunnan province, China, September 17, 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
10 March 2015
Chinese officials recently told a visiting Myanmar delegation not to misunderstand China...
Students and monks protest at Letpadan, Bago region on March 9, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
10 March 2015
Letpadan – The police cordon around student protesters in Letpadan has been tightened,...
Ma Thu Ta Sen at the Young Generations’ Note office in Mae Sot. 
10 March 2015
It was difficult to arrange a meeting with Ma Thu Ta Sen, the manager of Young...
10 March 2015
A prominent ethnic Chinese businessman with family ties to the leader of the Kokang rebel...
Police moved in to beat and arrest student protesters at Aung Myay Man Buddhist Monastery, Letpadan, Bago Region on March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
10 March 2015
Letpadan - Baton-wielding Myanmar police beat student activists March 10 as they broke up...
The former Chief Minister of the Mizoram State of India Pu Zoramthanga meets with Myanmar Peace Center officials in Yangon in January 2015. Photo: Myanmar Peace Center
10 March 2015
As Myanmar gears up to host a visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May, New...
Photo: Hong Sar
10 March 2015
Ma Thazin Soe has worked in a garment factory in Yangon's northern Mayangone Township for...
UNODC Executive Director Fedotov addressing Special Segment of CND at the 58th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna Austria on March. 9, 2015. Photo: ungass2016/Twitter
10 March 2015
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs began meeting on March 9 in Vienna, where...
Questions have been raised about the visits of the former UK prime minister to Myanmar. Mr Tony Blair (R), former Prime Minister of United Kingdom, shows a thumb up as he walks out of the 22nd World Economic Forum in Nay Pyi Taw  2013. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
09 March 2015
Twitter and Facebook generated some buzz during the last few days over speculation...

Pages