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Leaders Meet to Discuss Shan State Constitution Draft

The Shan State Constitution Drafting Committee is meeting to look into amendments to the second draft of the charter. Leaders from across Shan State met...

Gen Yawd Serk: ‘The Peace Process Has Stalled Because of the Tatmadaw’

SHAN speaks to the RCSS/SSA leader about his decision not to attend the third session of the Union Peace Conference this month. At the third...

CSSU Chairman Urges Shan Army Leaders to Unify

Amid clashes between Shan armed groups, the coalition head calls on the organizations to cooperate. Chairman of the Committee for Shan State Unity (CSSU)...

Linking Myanmar’s peace process and OBOR

The stagnation of Myanmar's ongoing peace process is well known, which has started out in 2011 by the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)-led...

Evaluation of the third 21st Century Panglong Conference: More informal engagement than official meetings?

Sai Wansai   The much awaited third 21st Century Panglong, officially known as Union Peace Conference - 21st Century Panglong (UPC – 21CP) was held in...

The menace of landmine fatalities in Myanmar

A short piece of news from Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) concerning the landmine fatalities in Kachin and Shan States, which have the...

NLD Congress and UPDJC Meeting: Starting the 21st Century Panglong Conference with common position ?

The news of government, parliament and the Tatmadaw deliberation meeting to find a common stand on various topics, later joined by the Ethnic Armed...

Myanmar’s freedom of expression downward spiral

Recently two reports,  watchdog journalism groups Pen Myanmar and Athan, came out one after another which indicated the serious freedom of expression regression within...

Another Pressing Issue: Forced portering and human shield

When Sai Tun Nyan,  MP from Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) tried to raise the issue of civilians being used as human shields...

NLD OFFICIAL POSITION: Panglong Agreement inferior to 2008 Constitution

As Director general of the State Counselor Office Zaw Htay's official answer of May 2017, regarding Panglong Agreement query, resurfaced again on Facebook one...

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