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SNLD patron Loong Hein Swe Moe passes away, aged 91

Loong Hein Swe Moe, the patron of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), passed away yesterday at the age of 91 in...

UNFC prepares for 21CPC and other challenges

The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) – a coalition of 12 ethnic armed groups that declined to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with...

Burmese army, RCSS/SSA clash in Panglong

A short skirmish broke out on Wednesday between Burmese government forces and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in southern Shan...

SNLD presses for votes in Kengtung

In a last-ditch effort to whip votes before the April 1 by-election, members of a Shan political party met with residents in Kengtung Township on March 27...

SNLD spokesman urges voters to support ‘local party’

Sai Leik, the spokesperson for the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), today urged voters going to the polls in by-elections on Saturday to...

NLD fails in bid to close polling stations in Mong Hsu

A request by the National League for Democracy (NLD) to cancel by-election voting at three polling stations in Mong Hsu Township, southern Shan State,...

Mong Hsu by-election: NLD member defects to SNLD

A high-ranking member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in southern Shan State has left the party and joined the Shan Nationalities League...

Shan State Assembly want to recruit staff by themselves

The speaker of the Shan State parliament has said that the regional government – not the central government – will recruit civil servants for...

Stop using civilians as weapons of war, Shan CSOs urge armed groups

Following accusations of extrajudicial killings and the mass abduction of civilians in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA),...

UNFC vows to hold on

Members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) that are parties to last month’s “Panghsang Pact” have decided to hang on together, despite the...

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