By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 12, 2018 ‘We will never be able to go home if we wait for peace in our area,’ one village administrator said. Internally displaced people (IDPs) are [...]
By Kyaw Myo / The Irrawaddy | September 7, 2018 YANGON—Proposals that the Union Parliament and Lower House take urgent steps to de-escalate fighting in ethnic regions in order to protect civilians were rejected for debate, said Nan Kham [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 6, 2018 Local woman Nang Mo Hom has been in TNLA custody for three weeks. Civil society organization representatives and family members of Nang Mo Hom—who has [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 5, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The government’s Peace Commission (PC) met with three members of the Northern Alliance group of armed organizations in China on Wednesday. The meeting was agreed to in [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N) | September, 4, 2018 With armed conflict on the way to Hsipaw and flooding outside Lashio, the displaced in Namtu Township are filling monasteries and makeshift camps. More than [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | August 22, 2018 People fled after hearing gunfire and after soldiers from both sides reportedly entered their village in the Mong Yaw area. Troops from the government forces [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | August 21, 2018 The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Tatmadaw (government military) have had 15 clashes since the completion of the third session of 21st Century Panglong Conference which was held [...]
By Lawi Weng and Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | August 20, 2018 MON STATE — A youth group based in Namkham Township in northern Shan State has condemned the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA)’s arrest last [...]
By Hom Heim / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | August 20, 2018 The clashes took place in Mong Yaw for two hours on Friday morning. Gunfire was exchanged between soldiers from the Burma Army and members of [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | August 17, 2018 MONGYAW — Recently, I happened to be in Palaung ethnic villages in Monyaw—a sub-township some 60 miles from the urban areas of Lashio in northern Shan State. [...]