Myanmar News » Shan News Myanmar » Shan » Health: Myanmar: KIA-facilitated Chinese business visit to proposed mining site raises community concerns over pollution and livelihoods
"Chinese Investors Inspect Proposed Mining Site in Loi Ho Hsur, Raising Local Concerns", Shan Herald Agency for News, 16 Oct 2026. Chinese business operators have visited Loi Ho H ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Health: Myanmar’s Shan State Department of Agriculture to roll out Occupational Safety and Health trainings in seven townships
YANGON (ILO NEWS) – The Vision Zero Fund (VZF) has developed customised training material on OSH relevant for ginger farmers in Shan State. Trainings have already started through Winrock International ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Health: Myanmar’s Shan State at Serious Environmental Risk as China Drives Dangerous Mining Surge
China-backed mining in Myanmar’s Shan State has surged, devastating forests and poisoning rivers. A 2022 joint venture with Beijing firms drives rare earth extraction threatening ethnic communities, ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Health: ‘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 » Health: Junta targeting rebel-held areas in northern Myanmar with airstrikes and artillery
Myanmar’s junta is conducting regular airstrikes and artillery attacks on towns in northern Shan state that are firmly under rebel control in a resurgence of violence in the area, residents said ...