An ethnic alliance, the United Nationalities Federal Council and members of the 88 Student Generation group led by Ko Myat Aye, met informally at a restaurant in Chiang Mai on the evening of November 7. Colonel Khun Ohkka, the joint secretary of the UNFC said that the two groups discussed how they could work together during the current peace process.…
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Norway’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Torgeir Larsen, will lead a delegation to the Bago regional town of Kyauk Kyi to meet with internally displaced Karen people today. A number of local Karen National Union sources confirmed to Karen News that the visit will take place today. “They will leave from Yangon on Tuesday morning. The Myanmar government’s Immigration Minister,…
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The Burmese youth activist group, Generation Wave, on October 9, 2011 celebrated its fourth anniversary of the founding of the organization in Rangoon, Burma. Ko Zaya Thaw, a founding leader of the organization, who is also a singer and a politician, said the simple celebration with a reception was held at Thirimingala Yan Aung Temple in San Chaung Township of…
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