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CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN SHAN STATE SITUATION: Junta in upbeat mood while TNLA is losing ground politically and militarily

As expected the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and military junta, now renamed as State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC) from State Administration Council...

UWSA OPTING OUT OF SUPPORTER ROLE: Effects of Armaments and Financial Blockage on the Anti-Junta Forces

This week the top headline news is the UWSA opting out of being the sponsor of anti-junta Ethnic Resistance Organizations (EROs) and other assorted...

ISSUING ID CARDS, HOUSE HOLD REGISTRATION AND TAXATION BLUES: What are the real EROs’ motives for such undertakings

Recently, the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA) has completed issuing ID cards to residents in most parts of Namhsan, Mantong, and...

PALAUNG TA’ANG STATE AMBITION: Realizable or just a pipe dream?

On August 12, Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar) published an investigative report titled: “Ta’ang Land Council (TLC) and two administrative challenges,”...

KIO UNITY INITIATIVE: General Gun Maw proactive move to streamline and solidify ethnic-democratic alliance

In a bid to counter the military junta's political onslaught of holding elections; employment of lobby firm in US to woo the Trump's government;...

JUNTA’S RE-BRANDING ITSELF MAKES NO DIFFERENCE: SAC becomes SSPC but political decision-making still firmly in Min Aung Hlaing’s hand

This week two pieces of news made headlines in Myanmar or Burma on July 30 and 31 respectively. One is the farewell party of...

SAC PROMULGATES LAW TO PROTECT ITS PLANNED ELECTIONS: Junta gearing up to materialize its road-map

On July 29, military leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing signed and promulgated the ‘Law on the Protection of Elections from Interference, Destruction, and...

LEGITIMACY COMPETITION HEATS UP: SAC moves ahead as NUG tries to figure out on how to counter it

These few weeks the issues of State Administration Council (SAC), military council or military junta's preparation, gearing to achieve legitimacy through elections is in...

NAWNGKHIO CAPITULATION: TNLA’s false priority-setting or lack of broad holistic worldly vision ?

It was foreseeable that Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) would have to give up Nawnghkio Town sooner or later since a couple of months...

SAC’S PLANNED ELECTIONS: Will the junta bother to listen to ASEAN’s wish list?

Free Malaysia Today of July 9 reported that Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan has called on all parties in Myanmar to create a conducive environment...

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