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Over 23,000 Shan State Residents Join Campaign Against Salween Dams

Shan group presents Australian consulting firm with signatures of residents opposed to southern Shan State’s controversial Mong Ton hydropower project. Today Shan community representatives revealed...

Ethnic summit reaffirms conciliatory all-inclusive signing

The 4 day summit of the ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) in Chiangmai which ended yesterday had reaffirmed its stand on the principle of all-inclusiveness,...

Drugs in Burma: ‘like gelded chickens’

One of the Shan townspeople met by the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) delegation that spent a month-long tour inside Shan...

RCSS vows not to support any parties

The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) representatives meeting the people in more than half of the townships in Shan State told...

Chiangmai to hold seminar on opening new border checkpoints

A seminar will be held at Chiangmai’s Uniserv Hotel tomorrow to discuss the opening of a new border checkpoint between Chiangmai and Burma’s Shan...

Naypyitaw urges Wa to sign NCA

Government negotiator U Aung Min recently exhorted representatives from the United Wa State Party/Army (UWSP/UWSA) at a meeting held in Rangoon to sign the...

TNI: Kokang- why and how to resolve it

The briefing paper, which is 22 pages plus 6 more pages of endnotes, released by Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) last month, has given us...

Chiangmai Conference on Burma Studies: Event Shans better not miss

So Chiangmai University is going to hold a conference on Burma Studies, 24-26 July. Fine, you say, but what does it have anything to...

Conference on Burma Studies to be held during decision meeting on NCA

By curious coincidence, the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies, the first in Chiangmai, 24-26 July, is due to be held on the same days...

Military wants NCA signed before 8 August

Sources recently returning from Naypyitaw say generals who have been participating in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations with the ethnic armed organizations (EAOs)...

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