Merchants and drivers report that checkpoint fees and road-clearance bribes extorted at military regime checkpoints along the route from Nawnghkio in northern Shan State...
After peace talks between the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and junta broke down the junta launched an airstrike on Nawnghkio (Naungcho), a TNLA-controlled...
Locals have nicknamed a junta column operating in and around Kyaukgu Village in Lawksawk (Yatsauk) Township, southern Shan State the ‘thieves column’ because they...