500 Kyat Notes With Gen Aung San Circulated In Northern Shan State
New five-hundred kyat (US 36 cents) currency notes depicting Gen Aung San have been spotted in Lashio, located in northern Shan State. The late Aung...
Hsihseng Authorities’ Land Compensation Scheme Could Create Interethnic Conflict, Farmers Say
Farmers in southern Shan State’s Hsihseng Township say that if a plan goes ahead to distribute highland farms to locals, the authorities risk fomenting...
Don’t Compensate Us With Deforested Land, Say Hsihseng Farmers
Locals are opposing an offer put forward by the Hsihseng administration in southern Shan State to compensate them for farmland seized by the military...
Fearing More Clashes, Villagers Seek Refuge in Kyaukme Monastery
Locals from eight villages are staying in a monastery in Kyaukme Township, northern Shan State saying that they fear that the Burma Army will...
SNDP Optimistic About 2020 Electoral Outcomes
The chair of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) has said that he anticipates his party winning the majority of local seats in Shan...
Burma Army Sends More Soldiers Into Kyaukme
The Burma Army has sent more troops into northern Shan State’s Kyaukme Township following recent protests against military violence in the area. Kyaukme resident Sai...
Government’s deception of Panglong Agreement prolongs ethnic armed conflict
Saw Than Myint Vice-Chairman of Federal Union Party (FUP) said quite bluntly in an interview with Akon Thi news recently that the ethnic people...
Tatmadaw Launches Investigation Into Death And Injuries Of Civilians
A Shan politician says he refused to join an army investigation into the killing of a civilian and others wounded by Burma Army soldiers...
SNLD Selects Candidates To Contest General Election
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) selected candidates in townships across Shan State last Sunday (July 12) to contest the 2020 general election. SNLD...
Buddhist Abbot And Villager Killed By Landmine
A landmine explosion killed a Buddhist abbot and a villager, while injuring a novice monk in Burma's northern Shan State this Tuesday (July 14). Aung...
