Tag: Shan State
Farmers Threatened to Accept Deal for Confiscated Land
By- Hseng Hleng The government seized land from farmers in eastern Shan State and threatened them to accept substitute land, according to a Shan political...
Shan Armed Groups Attempt to Forge Understanding
Representatives of two Shan ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) fighting each other in northern Shan State spoke by telephone on December 10. Lt-Col Oum Khur, spokesperson...
Medical Staff Struggle To Keep Up With COVID-19 Outbreak
Taunggyi Township will soon not have enough medical staff to treat and test for COVID-19 if the outbreak continues in southern Shan State. The...
Displaced Farmers Want to Return Home
Farmers who were forced to flee fighting in northern Shan State in the middle of the harvest period are eager to return to their...
Four Villagers Wounded During Fighting
Four villagers were wounded during fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in northern Shan State. The...
Six Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Tachileik
By Hseng Leng /SHAN Six cases of COVID-19, including two people who returned to Burma illegally from Thailand, were reported in Tachileik on December 10. After...
Rising Cases Prompts Authorities to Reduce Tachileik Market Hours
By Hseng Leng/SHAN Responding to an uptick in transmissions in Tachileik, health authorities ordered markets and grocery stores to close after 10 a.m. daily. All...
Fighting Uproots Hundreds in Northern Shan State
Over 250 civilians were forced from their homes after fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and several members from the Northern...
Woman Dies of COVID-19 in Lashio
A 38-year-old woman died of COVID-19 in the hospital in Lashio, northern Shan State, at 1 a.m. this Thursday, December 10, according to the...
One-hundred in Contact with COVID-19 Nurses
Six nurses were in contact with about a hundred people at Sao San Htun Public Hospital in Shan State's capital, Taunggyi, before it was...
