“Some company owners paid no taxes at all for about three years. All are now facing legal action after the Mon State Planning and Finance Department instructed the IRD to detain them,” he said, adding ...

Last weekend some 20,000 people took part in a protest over the naming of a bridge crossing the Thanlwin River connecting Mawlamyine and Chaungzon in Mon State, Myanmar. The march was by far the ...

Despite the fact that armed conflict between Myanmar's government and the New Mon State Party ended 18 years ago and that Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also know as the Golden Rock, has long been a popular place ...

As Myanmar’s military junta intensifies preparations for its December 2025 sham election, it is waging a parallel war both online and on the streets: a deliberate campaign to cut civilians off from ...

The government of Mon State has demanded that energy giant Toyo-Thai Corporation Plc produce a long overdue feasibility study. The Mon state government calls for Toyo-Thai Corporation Plc to produce a ...

Farmers say since 2011 authorities have allowed companies to rapidly expand extraction of rock stone to make gravel, while paying little attention to its environmental impact PAUNG TOWNSHIP, Mon state ...

YANGON: A house caught fire in Sitkeikone Ward, Mawlamyine, on the afternoon of September 4, according to residents. The fire reportedly started at around 4:40 p.m. in a house located on the main road ...

The military is bent on ensuring that its own narratives will dominate in the run up to its planned "election" in December and January. Heavy attacks by Myanmar’s military are threatening civilian ...

In 1994 and 1995 Kachin and Mon armed groups signed ceasefires with the government. Research conducted bythe TBBC in eastern Burma in 2004 and field work conducted by Human Rights Watch in eastern and ...