The Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA) has announced that they have set up the Big Tiger Foundation with a start up amount of 100,000 Thai Baht (USD 3100), with an aim to provide medical care and basic supplies to poor patients. Multiple offices of the Foundation were inaugurated in hospit...

The Karen National Union (KNU) Commanders’ Conference has decided on August 29, to keep their army under control and uphold ceasefire with the government during the peace reform period. The mid-yearly conference was held at the KNU headquarter in Hlaing Bwae township, Karen state from August 26-2...

The Burmese military, notorious over the past five decades for its use of child soldiers, erected an eye-catching billboard in downtown Rangoon this week indicating a desire to clean up its image—and perhaps its practices. In a first for Burma’s armed forces, a billboard promoting a “No Child Sol...

RANGOON — About 500 farmers from across Burma gathered at a two-day event in Rangoon this week to call on the government to address the worsening land confiscation issue and to return farmland that was seized under the previous military regime. Desperate farmers addressed the Voice of the Farmer ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — On May 22, representatives of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), accompanied by a team of researchers and students from Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, traveled to the remote northern Thai village of Ban Mae Sam Leap in Mae Hong Son Province to meet w...

RANGOON — A discussion about military land confiscations was halted on Thursday in Burma’s Parliament, after a representative from the army interrupted the proceedings and urged other lawmakers to move onto another topic. Brig-Gen Kyaw Oo Lwin, who was appointed to the legislature and not elected...