The New Mon State Party will sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, marking the first time that an ethnic armed organisation has acceded to the accord since eight initial non-state signatories…

The New Mon State Party will sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, marking the first time that an ethnic armed organisation has acceded to the accord since eight initial non-state signatories…
Mon political parties, monks and members of civil society in the southeastern state are urging the New Mon State Party, a Mon ethnic armed group, to sign Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire…
The clashes between the two major ethnic armed groups are the first since they decided to stop fighting in 1988.
While foreign observers largely praised the NCA signing, leaders from some ethnic groups that did not accede to the accord expressed their skepticism.
The New Mon State Party is calling on the government to release two of its members who were captured by the Burmese military after clashes erupted in southern Burma’s Tenasserim…
After being given a life sentence in 2003, two officials from the New Mon State Party were freed as their group continues to hold talks with the government