SNDP Chair: People Over Age 70 ‘Do Not Need to Run’ In the 2020 Election
Burma’s general election is expected to take place across in the country in November, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. SHAN interviewed Sai Aik Pao, chair...
Ethnic Youth in Shan State Voice Criticism of Govt’s Forthcoming Aung San Banknote
The Burmese government is going to issue a new 500 kyat currency note featuring the late Gen Aung San on July 19, but not...
Burma’s Media is ‘Losing Freedom’
SHAN spoke with Nan Pawt Gay, chair of the policy board of ethnic media network Burma News International (BNI) Multimedia Group, in honor of...
Shan State Farmers ‘On Their Own’ As Crops Rot Amid COVID-19 Trade Shutdown
Hundreds of vehicles exporting produce from Burma to China are now stuck at the Shan State-China border in Muse and Namkham townships, as Chinese...
Shan State Locals Criticize Govt’s COVID-19 Aid as Insufficient, Exclusionary
To control the spread of COVID-19 in Burma, the government issued stay-at-home orders during the Thingyan water festival in mid-April and announced provisions of...
BOOK REVIEW: Rebel Politics – A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands
A new book came out in October 2019, titled “Rebel Politics - A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands,” written by David...
A new generation calls for answers to Hsipaw prince’s 58-year disappearance
By Pippa Curwen Thursday, April 9, 2020 On March 2 this year, for the first time, the decades-old disappearance of Shan prince Sao Kya Seng was...
Book Review : Myanmar’s Political Transition and Lost Opportunities (2010-2016)
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Book title : Myanmar’s Political Transition and Lost
Opportunities (2010-2016) Author : Ye Htut Date
of publication: 1 October 2019 Price : $ 42.04
(Amazon.com) Two
excellent reviews have already been...
We have been deeply sunk in civil war, or should we say ethnic conflict war, ever since the inception of Union of Burma in...
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS: The need to value the rights of mankind
These days, the Myanmar leadership is bogged down by several lawsuit proceedings which include International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ) and...