FPNCC Won’t Attend Union Peace Conference
Members of the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC), a prominent ethnic armed organization (EAO) alliance based in Burma's northern Shan State, announced...
EAOs and Govt Agree on 3-Points During JICM
Signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) were in agreement with the government on three points during the Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) at...
SSPP/SSA Allows Polling Stations In Its Territories For Election
The Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) agreed to allow the Election Commission to set up polling stations in its territories for the...
More Than 40 Candidates Vie for Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Posts in Shan State
A total of 43 electoral candidates have registered to contest for seven ethnic affairs ministerial posts in Shan State in November. The posts are for...
What Is the UPC Without the Arakan Army?
The government has issued an official announcement that the fourth round of the Union Peace Conference (UPC) will commence on August 19, and they...
Thousands of Shan IDPs Still Unable to Vote in 2020 Election
Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Shan State living on along the Thai border say they won’t be able to vote in Burma’s...
Eastern Shan State Political Party ‘Won’t Run’ in 2020
The Eastern Shan State Development Democratic Party (ESSDDP) will not be running for any seats in the 2020 election in November. “Our ESSDDP party won't...
Off-Base Army Polling Stations Increases Transparency, Political Parties Say
Political parties contesting the 2020 election support new election regulations requiring members of the nation's armed forces to cast ballots at polling stations off...
MANAGING BURMA’S ETHNIC CONFLICT: Subjugation and suppression lead to secession urge (Part I)
With the ethnic conflict war of more than 72 years, a time span as old as the country's independence from the British when in...
Nearly One-Third Of SNLD Candidates Are Female
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) announced twenty-nine percent of the candidates it would field for the 2020 general election are women. SNLD said...
