Myanmar News » Shan News Myanmar » Shan » History: How Myanmar’s Railways Reflect the Nation’s Uneasy History
A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...
News Myanmar » Shan » History: FACTBOX: The Shan, Myanmar's largest minority
(Reuters) - Myanmar's Shan people and their homeland, Shan State, have been under de facto occupation by the Burmese-dominated military since a 1962 coup. - The Shan are the second-largest ethnic ...
News Myanmar » Shan » History: Tracing the History of Myanmar’s Rights and Democracy Movement Part 1: National Perspectives
The history of Myanmar’s democracy and rights movement after 1988 is colorful and fascinating—so why has it not been written? asks David Scott Mathieson.
News Myanmar » Shan » History: 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 » History: Myanmar Ethnic Armies Launch Major Offensive in Shan State
The Three Brotherhood Alliance has launched coordinated attacks aimed at dislodging the junta and its allies from strategically important regions of Shan State bordering China. On Friday morning, an ...
News Myanmar » Shan » History: FEATURE-Burmese junta keeps Myanmar's Shan in state of fear
KYAING TONG, Myanmar, Aug 29 (Reuters) - At night, the gilded Buddha standing imperiously on a hill overlooking Kyaing Tong is one of the few spots of light in the inky blackness of eastern Myanmar's ...