Myanmar News » Shan News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Toll of Displaced Surges as Fighting Continues in Myanmar’s Shan State
Up to 25,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to the recent upsurge of fighting in the northern part of Myanmar’s Shan State, “straining an already underresourced humanitarian response, ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: China awaits junta approval to resume border trade with Myanmar’s Shan state
Ethnic rebels in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state have reopened checkpoints on the border with China that were shuttered at the start of an offensive six months ago, but official trade has yet to resume ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Myanmar fighting blocks key trade route with China, impacting economy
Ethnic and resistance forces in Myanmar have completely blocked a key trade route to China, halting cross-border commerce and further damaging Myanmar's already struggling economy. The Mandalay-Lashio ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Myanmar’s Shan State at Serious Environmental Risk as China Drives Dangerous Mining Surge
Mining activity has surged dramatically in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State, led by the China Investment Mining Company — a venture strongly backed by Beijing. The company is expanding rare earth and gold ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Shan State Exemplifies China’s Tangled Myanmar Ties
China’s endorsement of the junta lays the basis for a boom in trade with the fractious eastern state – or so Beijing hopes. In this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, Ta’ang National Liberation Army troops march in ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: In Myanmar, Young Men Face Stark Choice: Join Army or Face Heavy Fines
The soft chimes of the traditional Shan gongs emanating from a Burmese temple in northern Thailand is a reminder of the thousands of Myanmar migrants who have fled conflict in their homeland in past ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Myanmar: Armed Group Abuses in Shan State
(Bangkok) – An ethnic armed group in northern Myanmar has abducted and forcibly recruited civilians fleeing fighting in Shan State, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar’s military also has a long ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: The Dilemma of Shan State for Myanmar’s Revolution
Nowhere in Myanmar is the revolutionary struggle more complex and confounding than in Shan State. Several separate ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) are operating in Shan State, each with their ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: ‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State
Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales. “Each ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Commerce: Thousands flee fighting in Myanmar’s Shan State
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in northeastern Myanmar after a recent upswing in fighting between ethnic minority rebels and the army, combatants and witnesses said Sunday. The recent ...