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14 December 2023
Mizzima Weekly Magazine Issue 50, Vol. 12, December 14, 2023
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...
Tourists from mainland China on an organised shopping tour in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, April 17, 2014. Photo: Alex Hofford/EPA
News
25 February 2015
Hong Kong mulls Chinese tourist limit
Hong Kong's leader said February 24 that the government is looking to restrict the number...
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...
News
25 February 2015
Human rights progress ‘stalled’, says Amnesty...
Progress on human rights “stalled” in Myanmar last year, Amnesty International has said...
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...
Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
Opinion
24 February 2015
The long march to university reform
Myanmar’s university students are known at home and abroad for their strident activism...
Latest issue of of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Charlie Hebdo/EPA
International
24 February 2015
Charlie Hebdo resumes satire with new issue
Nearly two months after a terrorist attack left 12 of its members dead, the editorial...
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...
Seen in Myanmar - Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C), with his sister former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L), and her son, on a visit to China. Photo: Yingluck Shinawatra/Facebook
International
24 February 2015
Former Thai PM Thaksin ‘visits Myanmar’
There has been an apparent sighting of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in...
RCSS chairperson Lieutenant General Yawd Serk seen at his home at Loi Tai Leng, Southern Shan State on December 1, 2013. Photo: Theingi Tun/Mizzima
Domestic
24 February 2015
RCSS chair Yawd Serk lauds ‘historical’ peace...
Chiang Mai – The leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State has welcomed the recent...
Domestic
23 February 2015
Facebook stickers counter Myanmar hate speech
Panzagar seeks to replace hate speech with "flower speech". Images: Panzagar Facebook now...

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