Network Media Group / BNI Online | October 4, 2018 The northern Shan State locals believe the troops were investigating whether members of ethnic armed organizations were staying in the community. Burma Army troops carried out unexpected checks of [...]
By Saw Kyaw Khwee / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | October 1, 2018 The Australian Karen Organization (AKO) said it supports the efforts to urge the UN to refer the Tatmadaw to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 28, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—To resolve the current standoff over the issue of non-secession, observers of the peace process urged the government at a stakeholders meeting in Yangon on Friday to [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 27, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has recently detained almost 100 Christian pastors and conscripted bible students into its ranks as fighters in self-declared autonomous areas bordering China and Thailand in Shan state, [...]
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) | September 27, 2018 It has been over one month since Nang Mo Hom, a Shan woman living in Ho Naung Ward, Namhkam City in Muse District, Shan State, was arrested at gunpoint [...]
Karen Community of Canada (KCC) | September 24, 2018 Dear Minister Chrystia Freeland, As the Karen Community of Canada, we were pleased to see Canadian MPs unanimously support the motion to declare the Rohingya crisis a genocide and to [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 21, 2018 The men, who range in age from 19 to 23, were working on the Shan-China border to earn money for their school fees and to [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | September 21, 2018 A woman was killed in a mine blast in Nam-tawng Village of Pang-hseng (Kyu Koke) under Muse Township, northern Shan State at around 3 pm on September 19. The [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 19, 2018 A rights group has reported that the police in Nam Hpat Kar, a town in Kutkai Township near the Chinese border, have still not taken action against two men [...]
By Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 MANDALAY — Thousands of people protested in Shan State on Monday to demand that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) release an ethnic Shan woman the armed group [...]