Tag: myanmar
Tachilek Accepts Hundreds Of Migrant Workers
The Government of Burma received hundreds of returnees this Wednesday (July 8) from the Thai border town of Mae Sai. Chan Myae Saw, who is...
Doctor Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Being Released From Hospital
After being discharged from the hospital for over a month, Case 96, a doctor from eastern Shan State who was infected with COVID-19, tested...
Rice Farmers Affected By Late Monsoon Season
Farmers in eastern Shan State's Kengtung Township are waiting for the rain to come to flood their fields before they can start seeding their...
Govt Tests Hundreds Of Migrant Workers For COVID-19
The government sent nearly 200 tissue samples taken from returning migrant workers from Thailand to the National Health Laboratory in Yangon. Dr Zawana, head of...
Man Killed By Gunmen In Muse
A man in Burma's northern unruly Shan State was shot and killed on his motorbike by two unidentified assailants this Wednesday (July 2). Eyewitness Ko...
Civilian Beaten By Burma Army Soldiers In Kyaukme Township
A civilian in northern Shan State was beaten by Tatmadaw soldiers, who arrived in the man's village after the other residents fled clashes. Sai Tun...
Govt Won’t Open Friendship Bridge In Tachilek
The Tachilek government announced the Friendship Bridge-1 connecting Burma to Thailand will remain closed. Burmese officials met with their Thai counterparts this Tuesday (June 23)...
Burma Receives 187 Returnees From Thailand
Burma accepted 187 citizens back into the country who crossed the Friendship Bridge-2 last week from Mae Sai, in Thailand, to Tachilek in southern...
Shan Want Market’s Name Restored
Some Lashio residents are furious after the name of a market was changed from a Shan name to a Burmese one. The Lashio Municipal Committee...
Hundreds Flee Standoff Between RCSS/SSA & TNLA
More than two hundred have fled their homes in northern Shan State after tensions simmered between ethnic armed organizations that have clashed over the...
