Environment

The Pyae Aung Hein and Hein Mitter companies are continuing their coal-mining operations in Mong Kung, despite an agreement to move out of the...

Representatives of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) sat for a meeting yesterday with local residents in Mong Kung Township to...

Some 30 local residents of Hsipaw Township in northern Shan State marched through the streets on Thursday, demanding the return of lands which were...

Local residents in eastern Shan State’s Mong Phyak Township have called for a gold-mining company to cease operations as the work is damaging their...

The Pyae Aung Hein and Hein Mitter coal-mining companies have both agreed to halt operations at their sites following a protest by some 4,000...

Some 4,000 people including politicians, civil servants, youths and Buddhist monks gathered together this morning in the southern Shan State town of Mong Kung...

A number of Burmese environmental organizations, including Burma Rivers Network, Save the Salween Network and The Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG), released a statement...

Leading Burmese environmental groups, including Burma Rivers Network (BRN) and Save the Salween Network (SSN), today released a statement, voicing strong opposition to the...

  Shan civic groups held a press conference in Bangkok today, claiming that the Burmese government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, is working secretly...

Twenty-six Shan-based organizations on Wednesday sent an open letter to Burma’s State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, calling on her government...