By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | May 8, 2018 YANGON — Nearly 600 locals from Namtu Township, northern Shan State, have been displaced by clashes between the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army [...]
By Chit Min Htun / The Irrawaddy | May 3, 2018 YANGON — The Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army-North (SSPP/SSA-N) is likely to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), according to a peace broker between the government and [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | April 23, 2018 The rape and brutal slashing of a 73-year-old woman by a Burma Army soldier near Mong Phyak town, eastern Shan State, on April 2, 2018, highlights the vulnerability of women [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | April 11, 2018 Residents who have been displaced by the fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) will return [...]
By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | April 10, 2018 YANGON — Nearly a month since the latest round of fighting broke out between two ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State, displaced families have yet to return [...]
By Wai Mar Tun / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 9, 2018 An ethnic Ta’ang militia operating in Myanmar's war-torn northern Shan state conducted recent searches for illegal drugs, but did not kidnap villagers and demand payments from [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | April 6, 2018 Fighting between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed organizations has escalated recently in the Kachin State and the northern Shan State. The Tatmadaw has been fighting with the Kachin Independence [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shand Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | April 5, 2018 Local residents have been taking refuge at a monastery in Hsipaw Township in the northern Shan State after the Tatmadaw fired several [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | March 29, 2018 Recently, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) came up with an approximate figure of 1,900 internally displace persons (IDPs), due to [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 2, 2018 China has warned Northern Alliance members with armed forces based near the Chinese border in northern Shan State not to cooperate with the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), according [...]