Tag: Taunggyi

The armed forces have tightened security checks around Taunggyi and are targeting all vehicles for the regime-sanctioned Thingyan festival, the Burmese New Year. A bus...

Eight women including the headmaster of a private high school, DNNA, were arrested by the military junta in Taunggyi, Southern Shan State. On 26 March...

The junta's armed forces detained at least five youths in Taunggyi last week after receiving tips from informants about their suspected political activities. Police knew...

Mg Mg (not official name) is 20 years old and a Taunggyi native. He has an elder sister who is running a Myanmar milk...

“If the Pang Peg (Pinpet) steel mill resumes, the locals could face starvation. We are worried that more land confiscation would occur again,” Khun...

Last Thursday, two people were injured by explosions at Ocean Mall in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State. A witness told SHAN that two...

Health professionals in Taunggyi struggle to make room for incoming patients infected with COVID-19 as the outbreak spreads in the town in eastern Shan...

Fear has taken hold of a village in northern Shan State after unidentified assailants opened fire on their headman. Gunmen shot Shwe Pa, the leader...

A bomb blast that killed a civilian and injured another in southern Shan State happened while university students were in class, despite beefed up...

Eight youths in northern Burma were arrested by armed forces for protesting against the military junta near the China border. An eyewitness told SHAN that...