Villagers Struggle to Pay Teachers’ Salaries

By NAW DWAY EH KHU / KANTARAWADDY TIMES Residents of the Karenni (Kayah) village of Law Palyr Lae, where there is no official government school,...

‘No Improvement to Farmers’ Rights’ Under NLD Govt, Network Says

By KANTARAWADDY TIMES Farmers in ethnic states across Burma are facing increasing abuses of their rights to land and livelihood by the government in recent...

Karenni Network Voices Support For ICJ Case Against Burma

By KANTARAWADDY TIMES The Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) released a statement on Monday supporting the case brought by Gambia against the Burmese state at...

Burma Army Must Return Illegally Confiscated Land, Lawyer Says

By KANTARAWADDY TIMES The Burmese military must return land seized from farmers in Karenni State if the act violated the country’s land confiscation law, a...

Gov’t Needs To Promote Ethnic Languages

By Kantarawaddy Times The government needs to do more to help teachers of ethnic languages, said a member of a Kayan party.If higher wages are...

Mese Township Locals Say Govt is Using Trespassing Charges to Take Their Land

By KANTARAWADDY TIMES Locals have objected to the prosecution of five people in Karenni State’s Mese Township for allegedly trespassing on forest land that the...

Farmers Criminalized For Cultivating Land

By Kantarawaddy Times Ethnic leaders need to know their rights in order to defend their people in Karenni (Kayah) State, said Myint Thwin, a lawyer. The...

Army Orders Farmers To Harvest Crops On Disputed Land

By Kantarawaddy Times In a bizarre twist of events, the Burma Army ordered farmers to harvest crops it previously stated were illegally planted on land...

Burmese Govt Signs Off On Five More Years of Tungsten Mining in Mawchi

By NAW DWAY EH KHU / KANTARAWADDY TIMES The Kayah State Mineral Production Company (KMPC) has received a five-year extension to its license to extract...

Karenni State Govt Legalizes Sale of Logs From 10,000-Ton Timber Harvest

By MAW OO MYAR / KANTARAWADDY TIMES The Karenni State government is officially permitting 10,000 tons of timber to be sold after being harvested illegally...

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