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Muse’s First COVID-19 Patient Leaves Hospital

An 87-year-old woman, who is Muse’s first COVID-19 patient, has recovered and was sent home from the hospital in the northern Shan State border...

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...

Recovered COVID-19 Patient Discharged From Lashio Hospital

A male patient that was infected with the novel coronavirus in Shan State on March 28 has fully recovered and was sent to his...

China Returns Imprisoned Burmese Nationals to Muse

Chinese authorities transferred more than 260 Burmese nationals imprisoned the country to Muse, northern Shan State on Thursday. Thurein, a General Administrative Department (GAD) officer...

Quarantined Workers Sent Home

Hundreds of returning workers that were doing a 21-day quarantine in eastern Shan State are on their way back to their villages. Nearly 400 people...

Namkham Farmers Throw Corn In River

Farmers in Namkham township that couldn’t export their corn to China after the border closed were forced to throw their spoiled corn into the...

BURMA’S CIVIL WAR RAGING : More than seven decades later no ending of conflict in sight

The Burma Army or Myanmar Military doesn't even want to accept that there is civil war going on in the country, arguing that the...

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...

Following Quarantine, Mongla Transfers Hundreds of Returned Migrant Workers to Govt

Officials in Mongla’s Special Region-4 sent more than 550 migrant workers who had returned from China to the Shan State capital of Taunggyi on...

Storm Hits Southern Shan State, Destroys Homes and School

A hailstorm pounded residences and public buildings in southern Shan State’s Namzang Township this weekend, according to local sources. More than 30 homes were damaged...

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