DVB sat down with Khon Ja to reflect on the year gone by and what the outlook for 2018 looks like in Kachin State.

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 joined the previous government and military in formally agreeing to its terms over two years ago.

The government extended an invitation to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang to join next month's Union Peace Conference.

Legal experts suggest that the case brought against three detained journalists who are being charged under Burma’s Unlawful Associations Act lacks a sound basis upon which to pursue prosecution, given the specifics of the colonial-era legislation’s provisions.

The dwindling alliance of ethnic armed groups joined under the United Nationalities Federal Council banner convenes a conference in Thailand chaired by a leader of one of its former members, the influential Kachin Independence Army.

Media freedom advocates have lashed out at the latest 66(d) suit filed by the Tatmadaw against a satirical columnist.