Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 13, 2017 Fighting has broken out again between the Burmese army and Kokang rebels near the Sino-Burmese border. The clashes coincide with a meeting between members of the Northern Alliance – [...]
By Tin Htet Paing / The Irrawaddy | May 11, 2017 RANGOON — Refugees from Burma who were repatriated from Thailand to commercial capital Rangoon late last year have settled into their housing arrangements on the outskirts of the [...]
By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 11, 2017 Residents in southern Shan State’s Mong Nong sub-township are claiming that their lands have been seized by the Burmese military. A local source who wished to [...]
By Ko Aung / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) / May 11, 2017 The Arakan National Party (ANP) has announced that its decision on whether or not to participate in the 21st Century Panglong Conference’s second round will be [...]
By Angshuman Choudhury / The Irrawaddy | May 12, 2017 Less than a month before the commencement of the second 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), the Union government of Myanmar faces an unprecedented situation. Both the Kachin Independence Organization [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) / May 10, 2017 The peace process that is scheduled to pick up again on May 24, known as Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), now seems [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 9, 2017 In a large shakeup that could spell trouble for the peace process, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIA) and the Wa National Army (WNA) have resigned from the powerful ethnic bloc, the [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 8, 2017 The call into question for the existence of the ethnic alliance begins with when Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) whose leader is the current-president of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), forwarded [...]
Joint Strategy Team | May 5, 2017 Intense fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) took place on 2nd May 2017 near KaungKhe, Pan San, and Namhom villages in Nam Kham Township. The [...]
Sai Wansai | May 4, 2017 Is Revitalization of the 1961 Federal Amendment Proposal the Way to Go? Introduction: The Contemporary Impasse With the Union Peace Conference, known as the “21st Century Panglong”, rescheduled to start on 24 May, [...]