By Lawi Weng and Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | November 5, 2018 YANGON/Mon State — The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) claims that the Myanmar military last week warned ethnic Shan living in northern Shan [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald For News Agency (S.H.A.N.) / BNI Online | November 5, 2018 People from multiple villages fled to a monastery following clashes between the RCSS/SSA and members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed [...]
By Hum Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) / BNI Online | October 31, 2018 Villagers fled after hearing the sound of gunfire in the Mong Yaw area of Lashio. A Burma Army offensive against the Ta’ang [...]
By Myat Moe Thu / The Myanmar Times | October 31, 2018 The number of evacuees doubled overnight on the outskirts of Lashio Township in northern Shan State as fighting between two ethnic groups intensified, a village official said yesterday. [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | October 29, 2018 At least seven people have been wounded by landmines in northern Shan State in October, according to local residents, who said the devices posed a serious threat to their [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | October 26, 2018 YANGON—Nearly 750 residents of Mong Yin village in northern Shan State’s Namtu Township have fled fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army South and a joint [...]
Progressive Voice / Rohingya Women Welfare Society (RWWS) / Kachin Women's Association - Thailand (KWAT) | October 25, 2018 [New York, 25 October 2018] – The UN Security Council (UNSC) must exercise its authority and urgently act to refer [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | October 24, 2018 YANGON — Khin Myat Moe is a 4-year-old ethnic Palaung girl born in Nansang in northern Shan State. In January, her mother brought her to a Buddhist nunnery [...]
World Kachin Congress (WKC) | October 22, 2018 We, members of the World Kachin Congress, a network of Kachin communities and organizations around the world, demand that the Burma Army's Northern Regional Command immediately drop criminal defamation charges against [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | October 22, 2018 YANGON — Villagers in Shan State afraid of the potential environmental fallout from a planned coal mine say they have submitted petitions to local authorities urging them to cancel [...]