Environment

There are full of gun-smoke on other side of Hsipaw town, where is the root of famous "Twilight Over Burma" movie.  People have automatically felt...

Shan children in rural communities have long been seen wearing flat, shell-like pendants on their necks, a hole cut into its surface and hung...

On September 12, some 200 Shan Civil Society Organizations' (CSOs) members staged a protest rally in Taunggyi, capital of the Shan State, while the...

Hundreds of locals and members of civil society organizations protested a meeting organized by the International Financial Corporation (IFC) in the Shan State capital...

Some 50 people have been relocated after heavy rainfall caused multiple landslides in the Shan State capital of Taunggyi, beginning in early September.  The people,...

As dead pigs are seen floating down a stream in Tachileik, African swine fever is a suspected cause.  Locals are worried about an unknown illness...

‘Chemical insecticides are easy to sell and easy to buy in Shan State. Actually, farmers don't know how to use it,’ a local says. Widespread...

‘If they cannot work in our paddy fields, how will they survive?’ a local monk said. Locals in Mongkai, southern Shan State, say they...

Residents say the town has experienced serious flooding for each of the past three years, and that this is the earliest it has ever...

‘We have to consider an alternative way of generating electricity,’ says an MP, as available power is rotated between wards in the state capital...