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The Irrawaddy News Magazine
April 23, 2018
By Nyein Nyein 23 April 2018. CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The presence of Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) troops in eastern Shan State to protect a mining project has led to human rights abuses against civilians, according to the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF), citing the recent alleged rape of an elderly woman by aÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
April 23, 2018
YANGON — The Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, pushed back two battalions of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) based in southern Kachin State on ... near the town of Laiza in KIA-controlled territory, and another 17 at Brigade 3, near a camp for families displaced by the fighting in northern Shan.
Myanmar Times
April 20, 2018
One political prisoner who was released from Thayawaddy prison under the presidential amnesty was, Than Chaung aka Sao Kun Kyaw, was a former leader of the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) (northern branch) as well as a member of the Reconciliation Council of Shan State (RCSS).
Reliefweb
April 13, 2018
By Nyein Nyein 12 April 2018. CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The Shan State Progressive Party and the government's Peace Commission will meet at the party's Wan Hai headquarters in northern Shan State's Kehsi Township within the next three weeks, according to the commission. According to sources closeÃâà...
Mizzima News
April 13, 2018
A clash between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Myanmar military in the Indawgyi region of Kachin state yesterday has forced an unspecified number of residents from Aytulay village to flee their homes, RFA reported quoting local sources. The fighting between KIA and government soldiersÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 13, 2018
The fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and government soldiers began on April 10 in the area where the Myanmar Army's Infantry Unit 390 and Operations Control Headquarters No. 3 are located, they said. Six residents who are “Red Shan” farmers are missing, said a villager fromÃâà...
Myanmar Times
April 12, 2018
CSOs need more trucks, gasoline and water pumps as well as water containers so they can reach out to more affected villages. Similar water shortages affect other regions of Myanmar, such as Mandalay, in the first few months of each year as temperatures rise, water consumption increases, wells dry upÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 6, 2018
Myanmar: Kachin & Northern Shan Shelter Coverage & Gaps (1/Feb/2018). Infographic. from UN High Commissioner for ... HHs still in need of shelter intervention 2,897. Shelter Cluster members are currently covering approximately 38 % of the shelter needs reported in Kachin and Northern Shan States.
Radio Free Asia
March 26, 2018
Chinese authorities have frozen seven bank accounts owned by Myanmar traders who do business along the border in northern Shan state, claiming that the funds they contain are linked to illegal gambling activities, a Myanmar government official said Monday. The banks began freezing the accounts ofÃâà...
Asian Correspondent
March 25, 2018
FOR the thousands of ethnic people who have fled conflict in Burma (Myanmar), memories of home come with daunting reminders of a war that has forced them to abandon their livelihoods and seek shelter. ... She is one of the few in the camp who is literate in both Shan and Burmese. She says many areÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 25, 2018
He refers to the armed wing of the Restoration Council of Shan State, an ethnic group that has signed a ceasefire with the government and that controls part of the territory we will cross on our two-day hike through the region's mountains. Our hosts are involved in Myanmar's civil war, one of the longestÃâà...
Burma News International
March 20, 2018
Renewed fighting has been breaking out between the RCSS/SSA-S and the TNLA in Namhsan, Hsipaw, Kyaukme, and Namtu townships since March 10, according to Maj Mai Aik Kyaw. The Shan Herald has been unable to contact the RCSS/SSA-S to inquire about the clashes and the issues on holdingÃâà...
Tricycle
March 17, 2018
Win fiercely dismissed the belief that the ethnically Burmese, or “Bamar,” own Myanmar and rejected the claims to primacy over other ethnic groups that have led to such brutality toward the Rohingya and other groups like the Shan, Mon, Karen, and Kachin. “Before the people who now inhabit Burma, thereÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 17, 2018
The latest round of clashes between troops from the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic Palaung militia, began in the township on March 9 and has escalated during the past two weeks, leaving a handful of villagers dead and wounded andÃâà...
Myanmar Times
March 8, 2018
The project hopes to improve both the capacity and reliability of electricity throughout Myanmar. It is expected to generate more than 34 billion KW hours of electricity annually. The dam on the Thanlwin River would be 606 meters long, 241 meters high with a generating capacity of 7000 MW of electricity,Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
March 4, 2018
The Nippon Foundation has completed its 300th School in Shan State, state media reported on 5 March. The post-primary school was built under an initiative to construct schools by the Ministry of Border Affairs and the Nippon Foundation. According to the report, the Nippon Foundation has been providingÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 1, 2018
The Myanmar government and other stakeholders in the country's struggling peace process have pushed ahead the date of the third round of their negotiations to early May because ethnic armies in violence-ridden Shan and Rakhine states have yet to hold ethnic-based national-level discussions, peopleÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
February 23, 2018
At approximately 16:40 local time on 21 February, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at a domestic commercial bank in Lashio city in Myanmar's Shan State. Images shared on social media showed extensive damage to the Yoma Bank building, some damage to the adjacent Ayeyarwady BankÃâà...
New York Times
February 21, 2018
BANGKOK — A bomb exploded at a bank in northern Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding 22 others, military officials said. The explosion occurred in the often lawless city of Lashio, in northern Shan State, which has been torn apart by ethnic strife and battles to controlÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 20, 2018
There are two main roads for ethnic Wa traveling to Kyaingtong in eastern Shan State and Tachilek on the Thai-Burmese border. But since early this ... In the past, they have freely traveled to Kyaingtong and Tackhilek for medical treatment or to trade goods, using ID cards issued by Myanmar immigration.
Myanmar Times
February 20, 2018
The Shan State Army (SSA) laid down its arms in a ceasefire with the Myanmar government two years ago and the state's ruling administration is now enjoying the fruits of the transition to peace. These quieter times have allowed the building of the first vocational college in the rebel-controlled area, whichÃâà...
ITV News
February 9, 2018
Yet a long way from the Rohinya's attacked homeland Rakhine State is Shan State, a long-oppressed rebel enclave in the country's north east. Its people also accuse the Burmese Army of rape, murder and forced relocation. Our cameras filmed the charred remains of people torched in their villages in 2016.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 8, 2018
YANGON—The chairwoman of the Brighter Future Myanmar Foundation, one of Myanmar's best-known philanthropical organizations, was honored by the Shan State government for her humanitarian efforts in the country's eastern highlands. During a commemoration to mark the 71st anniversary of ShanÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 5, 2018
Despite the hostilities, representatives from the Myanmar military held informal talks with KIA leaders on Feb. 1 in southwestern China's Yunnan province with the support of Chinese government authorities, the online news service Democratic Voice of Burma reported, citing KIA spokesman Colonel Naw BoÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 4, 2018
The committee had to cancel public consultations on the peace process in December, in part because the Myanmar military objected to the participation of the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army North, a committee member. Sai Boe Aung said the committee would continue trying to hold theÃâà...
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
The Shan State government has allowed local community organisations to collect entrance fees at Inle Lake so they can have funds to conduct ... Sixteen civil society organisations and six tourism related associations, such as the Myanmar Hoteliers Association in southern Shan and the MyanmarÃâà...
Eleven Myanmar
December 31, 1999
There are the massive influx of tourists in ten townships in southern Shan State, according to Directorate of Hotels and Tourism. The most visited tourist destinations are Taunggyi, Shwenyaung, Nyaungshwe, Pindaya, Kalaw, Aungpan, Pinlaung, Namhsan, Pekon and Pa-O. Last year, Shan State receivedÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
December 31, 1999
The TNLA engaged in skirmishes with the Myanmar army in the state's Mangton, Namtu, and Namhkam townships in March, as well as with troops from the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), the political organization that oversees the Shan State Army-South militia, in Namhsan and KyaukmeÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 1999
Members of the Rohingya, Karen and Kachin ethnic minorities protest against human rights abuses in Myanmar, as Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burma State ... “The long-standing conflicts in Kachin and Shan states have recently intensified, leading to more reports of serious violations of international humanÃâà...
Burma News International
December 31, 1999
Electric power pylon at Biluchaung Hydropower Station in Kayah State, Myanmar. Photo: Ye Min/Mizzima. Thursday, March 15, 2018. Mizzima. The government is planning to spend 9 million euros on an electrification project for 253 villages in Shan State (South), said Dr. Soe Soe Ohn, the project manager, according toÃâà...
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
Yangon United's top scorer Sekou Sylla kicks the ball during last Friday's encounter against Shan United at YUSC. ... Yangon United now leads the Myanmar National League (MNL) 2018 by five points over the current title holder Shan United after their 1-0 encounter on week seven of the competition heldÃâà...
