How are NCA signatory EAOs helping flood victims?

CNI News 19 September 2024 Questions are emerging in relation to how NCA signatory EAOs are helping flood-hit people. The 7 NCA signatory EAOs are supporting rice to flood victims and collaborating with other organizations, Patron of the Pa-O National...
19 September 2024

Hotels in Bagan and northern Shan State to be sold due to lack of tourists

CNI News 2 April 2024 Some hotels in Bagan, ancient heritage site, and northern Shan State were sold because there were almost no tourist arrivals, hotel entrepreneurs associations in those regions told CNI News. Moreover, hotel industries were making...
02 April 2024

Hotel rooms fully booked in southern Shan State for Tazaungdaing

CNI News 14 November 2023 As the Tazaungdaing Festival will be held in southern Shan State, almost every hotel room there has been booked for the Tazaungdaing holiday. However, as battles are taking place in northern Shan State, there is no tourist who...
14 November 2023

Hnownbu and Tron I Byuhar Hills are important to security and economy

CNI News 16 December 2023 The Hnownbu and the Tron I Byuhar Hills are strategically important to the security and economy of Myanmar, said political and military analysts. The Arakan Army (AA) stated that it captured the Tron I Byuhar Hill on 4th...
16 December 2023

Half of Rakhine's paddy may be wasted due to fuel crisis

CNI News 13 December, 2023 Because the fuel cannot be bought in Rakhine State at present, it is difficult to reap the rainfed paddy, and if the current situation continues, about half of the state's paddy may be wasted, according to the Rakhine State...
14 December 2023

Government needs to plan ASAP to avoid fuel shortages

CNI News 8 December 2023 The government needs to solve the US dollar demand crisis as soon as possible to import fuel so that frequent high price of fuel and fuel shortages at fuel stations can be avoided, said economic commentators. Although oil...
08 December 2023

General Yawd Serk says they will govern their controlled territory with a self-governing system

CNI News 19 March 2024 Their seven NCA signatories would start governing their controlled territories with their self-governing system of self-determination, said General Yawd Serk, chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State. The seven NCA...
19 March 2024

General Tin Aung San and General Maung Maung Aye transferred

CNI News 19 December 2024 General Tin Aung San and General Maung Maung Aye were transferred, announced the State Administration Council (SAC) on 18th December 2024. General Tin Aung San was transferred from the position of Minister of Defense to the...
19 December 2024

Garment factory workers go abroad to work

CNI News 5 June 2024 Many workers from domestic garment factories are leaving for foreign countries such as China, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos, according to those who are working on labor issues. The reason why they are going abroad to work was because...
05 June 2024

Fuel problem will be a bit resolved because Central Bank sells dollars

CNI News 21 December 2023 The Central Bank of Myanmar sold 9.72 million US dollars to the companies that import fuel on 18th December. So, difficulty in purchasing fuel in the domestic market will be resolved to an extent, said businessmen. There were...
21 December 2023

Fuel problem relevant to whole country should be solved ASAP

CNI News 13 December 2023 The difficulty purchasing the fuel is related to not only the people who own the cars in the country, but also all the people across the country. So, it was necessary to solve the problem as soon as possible, economic...
13 December 2023

Fuel oil black market becomes bigger in Yangon

CNI News 19 August 2024 Fuel black market became bigger in Yangon and the price reached 9,000 kyats per liter, sidecar motorcycle drivers told CNI News. Sidecar motorcycle drivers could find time to queue up to buy fuel oil like other people and they...
19 August 2024

From federal to confederation

CNI Article 31 August 2024 The Tatmadaw staged a coup d'etat in 1962, saying federalism led to secession. At that time, the people were enjoying full democracy under the government led by Prime Minister U Nu. However, because of inequalities in the...
31 August 2024

Four-group workshop can strengthen NCA

CNI News 19 October 2023 After the 8th Anniversary Celebration of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was held, the four-group workshop which contains the Tatmadaw, EAOs, political parties and civil societies could strengthen, which some people...
19 October 2023

Four Mon armed groups agree to form unified Mon Army

CNI News 21 December 2024 Four Mon armed groups agree to merge into a unified army, a single Mon National Armed Forces and take military action, they said in their joint statement that was released on 19th December 2024. The four Mon Armed groups are...
21 December 2024

Former Chairperson of KNU Naw Zipporah Sein passes away

CNI News 26 July 2024 The former Chairperson of the Karen National Union (KNU) Naw Zipporah Sein passed away somewhere on the Thai-Myanmar border, according to those close to her. Naw Zipporah Sein was daughter of former Chairman of the KNU Tamalabaw...
26 July 2024

Foreign aid to resolve Myanmar issue is only peripheral

CNI News 24 March 2025 Myanmar people only must resolve the armed and political conflicts that were breaking out in Myanmar and foreign aid was just peripheral, Dr. Hla Kyaw Zaw, a China-Myanmar affairs commentator, told CNI News. ASEAN has a chance to...
24 March 2025

Federalism is impossible without equal political rights

Federalism is impossible without equal political rights CNI News 31 May 2025 If the country is to return to federalism, political equality must be restored. Without political equality, there can be no federalism, Colonel Khun Okkar, chairman of the...
31 May 2025

Farmers who own 10 acres and above will be lent 400,000 kyats per acre

CNI News 17 December 2023 Plans are being made to lend 400,000 kyats per acre to farmers who own 10 acres and above as a short term loan, according to the Myanmar Rice Federation. The MRF had a coordination meeting with those in charge from the Myanmar...
17 December 2023

Exposed: Pakistan’s State-Sponsored Terrorism and its Unrepentant Admissions

CNI News 5 May 2025 Over the decades, a growing body of evidence from books, political confessions, and military statements has established Pakistan’s deep and sustained involvement in terrorism, both regionally and globally. The Pakistani state, led...
05 May 2025