Myanmar News » Shan News Myanmar » Shan » Life: 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 » Life: Myanmar military courts sentence 12 to life for human trafficking, including Chinese nationals
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Chinese security officers stand at a border gate between Kachin rebel-controlled Laiza in Myanmar's north and China's ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Life: Student Life in Rebel Territory: Bombs, Snakes and Hungry Cows
As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their pursuit of a federal democracy. By Richard C. Paddock Richard C. Paddock ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Life: 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 » Life: Kachin, Shan residents face hardships as China and Myanmar block trade
Closures along Myanmar’s shared border with China have cut off residents of Kachin and Shan states from humanitarian aid and sent the prices of goods skyrocketing, sources from the regions said Monday ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Life: Fate of junta officers unclear following surrender to rebels in Myanmar’s Shan state
Speculation is swirling over the fate of six brigadier-generals from the Burmese military following their surrender of a strategic Shan state city to ethnic rebels earlier this month in a humiliating ...
News Myanmar » Shan » Life: ‘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 » Life: 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 ...