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Mon Party Urgently Needs Campaign Funds
Kaowao: July 11, 2010
Moulmein -- The All Mon Region Democracy Party expects to gain seats in the Mon area in the upcoming 2010 General Election, says Nai Ngwe Thein, the party leader during the first round of his party's campaign...

World Cup 2010: Mon State Under Their Feet
Kaowao: July 3, 2010
Moulmein -- With the whole world watching the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, many people in Mon State have decided to try their luck at gambling - a centuries old habit and diversion in Asia that is hard to break.

NMSP gains public support after rejecting BGF
Kaowao: May 21, 2010
Sangkhlaburi -- The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has gained public support both inside and outside of Mon State after it rejected the SPDC’S plan to transform its army into a Border Guard Force last month...

Mon Party to Choose Candidates for the 2010 General Election
Kaowao: May 21, 2010
Moulmein -- The All Mon Region Democracy Party is planning to contest in Pago and Taninthayi Divisions, Karen and Mon States Kaowao has learned...

NMSP reaches final decision on joining BGF
Kaowao: April 24, 2010
The New Mon State Party has rejected a plan to transform its army into a Border Guard Force, Kaowao has learned. The NMSP’s armed wing, the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA),...

Election 2010: Mon Democracy Party Prepares For Registration
Kaowao: April 14, 2010
Sangkhlaburi -- Mon activists and politicians are preparing to register their political party for the upcoming election, according to local sources in Moulmein....

Child Soldiers in Mon State

‘We Will Fight in Parliament’ say Mon Leaders
By Azan, July 27, 2010
More than 20 ethnic political parties including the Mon, a minority ethnic group, have decided to participate in the upcoming 2010 General Election, scheduled to take place later this year in Burma.

LOSS OF HOPE
Taing Taw
“The Mon and Karen peoples first rose up into an armed struggle in the wake of Burma’s independence from the British in 1948, revolting against the Burman domination or Burman ethnocentric rule...

2010 Election: Direction for democracy or autocracy
By Apar Hong Mon
The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has recently announced its election laws which many believe will not meet the international standards for a democratic election. ...

A Lesson from the Past: the fate of the Karen Revolutionary Council
Nai Pe Thein Zar (Federal University)
A year ago in April 2009 Burma’s military rulers proposed that all seventeen armed cease-fire groups transform their armies into Border Guard Forces (BGF) administered by the junta...

History
A kingdom with a thousand faces
By Lita Davidson
A recent historical interpretation has strongly questioned the existence of a Mon Buddhist kingdom in Lower Burma in the early first millennium referred to as Rāmaññadesa ,...

Hunger for Education

The Karen Flag: A Symbol of Unity

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