Volunteers of Myanmar Red Cross organisation carry wounded volunteer U Moe Kyaw, 45, as the war vrefugees fleeing from Laukkai sit on the truck after vehicles of a rescue convoy were attacked by Kokang rebels near Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Two volunteers from Myanmar Red Cross Society injured in rescue convoy attack. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
19 February 2015
The Myanmar Journalist Network on February 18 issued a statement urging government troops...
A street vendor reads a new private daily newspaper while selling newspapers and weekly journals at a roadside stall in Yangon, Myanmar, April 1, 2013. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
19 February 2015
For more than forty years state media dominated Myanmar’s media landscape. State...
A wounded Red Cross volunteer lies on ground after vehicles of a civilian rescue convoy were attacked by Kokang rebels near the self-administered Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Two volunteers from the Myanmar Red Cross Society were injured in the convoy attack. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo
18 February 2015
In what is said to be the first attack against the Myanmar Red Cross, two Red Cross...
A girl watching her family's cows on farmland near Mawlamyine city, Mon State, Myanmar, July 5, 2013. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
18 February 2015
A report just released highlights the ongoing land conflict that many farmers reportedly...
Electric power pylon at Biluchaung Hydropower Station in Kayah State, Myanmar. Photo: Ye Min/Mizzima
18 February 2015
Electric power to the whole country was cut at about 1:30 pm on February 17 due to a...
Australian Mr Michael Chan (R), the brother of death-row prisoner Andrew Chan, arrives for visiting Andrew at Kerobokan Prison in Bali, Indonesia, February 17, 2015. Photo: Made Nagi/EPA
18 February 2015
The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office has decided to put off the execution of eleven...
Shayam Brang Shawn, known as Brang Shawng, (2nd L), has been fined K50,000 [US$50) for defamation. Photo: Kachin Wave News
18 February 2015
A Kachin man convicted of making false allegations against the Tatmadaw after he called...
President U Thein Sein visits injured military personnel and families of soldiers killed during clashes with Kokang fighters in Laukkai area, Shan State, on February 16, 2015. Photo: President's Office
18 February 2015
Myanmar’s president has vowed “not to lose an inch” of territory in clashes with ethnic...
Military troops march as they clear the area in Chin Shwe Haw town of the Kokang-administered area, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 16, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
17 February 2015
Nay Pyi Taw – The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has condemned the actions of ‘Kokang renegades’ who...
Dr Aye Maung, chairman of the Rakhine National Party, arrives back at Yangon International Airport after a week-long visit to Malaysia, on February 7, 2014. Photo: Hein Htet/Mizzima
17 February 2015
Nay Pyi Taw – Myanmar’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that parliament’s decision to...
An unidentified farmer showing raw opium in an opium poppy field in Lone Twel village, Loilen Township, Southern Shan State, Myanmar, December 13, 2014. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
17 February 2015
The Washington DC-based Transnational Institute has welcomed the Myanmar government’s...
The Thai labour market relies heavily on migrant labour, workers who on occasion are under age. Fishmongers push a cart of fresh fish at the Bangkok fish market on January 20, 2005. Photo: Udo Weitz/EPA
17 February 2015
At least three textile and electronics factories in the Thai border province of Tak were...

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