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Ethnic Kokang rebels in northern Myanmar have executed six people following a public trial in front of hundreds of people that was filmed and posted on social media, including murder, the group ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: 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 » People: Myanmar Rebel Group Claims Capture of Major Military HQ in Shan State
A Myanmar rebel group claims to have seized a major regional military headquarters in the city of Lashio near the border with China, in what would mark a historic and humiliating defeat for the ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: Myanmar Military Retakes Important Town in Southern Shan State
Myanmar’s military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State, just over a year after losing it to the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic armed group. In a report ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: Myanmar junta bombs rebel-held town in Shan state, killing 8
Myanmar’s military bombed a town in Shan state under rebel control killing eight people days after striking a ceasefire with an allied group that also operates in the northeastern state, the group in ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: Allegations of Uranium, Plutonium in Myanmar Puzzle Experts
Allegations of a Myanmar-Yakuza arms deal involving nuclear materials have raised alarms in Myanmar’s rebel-held Shan state and confounded scientists, who have long been aware of raw uranium in the ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: 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 » People: 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 » People: Photos of vivid Buddhist celebration in Thailand that’s a rite of passage for Shan boys
The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up to one month Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were ...
News Myanmar » Shan » People: A Closer Look at Burma's Ethnic Minorities
Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against ...