FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM NUG vows to repeal 1982 Citizenship Law  The National Unity Government (NUG) states that it and the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)...

Originally published on Mohinga Matters Religions play a major role in Myanmar’s political history, especially Buddhism. Buddhist monks have been involved with political movements since...

The NUG’s Ministry of Human Rights announced a series of commitments to enfranchise ethnic Rohingya and other minorities in a statement issued on June...

“We feel deeply for the suffering of all the people who have been caught up in the conflict,” she told an audience in Naypyidaw that included members of the foreign diplomatic corps.

Advocates of interfaith harmony say a renaming of the hardline Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha, and plans to formally inject its ideology into Burma’s political sphere, will do little to staunch — and may even exacerbate — the underlying religious intolerance that the organisation has been accused of fomenting.

The nationalist monks opened a Rangoon school that teaches students how to become ‘decent citizens’ who protect Burma's majority race and Buddhist religion.