Shan Herald Agency for News

May 3, 2017
A number of rural families in southern Shan State’s Laikha Township are to be given back lands that were confiscated from them by the Burmese army...
Photo by local source- Villagers were injured during clashes between Burmese government forces and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in northern Shan State’s Namkham Township.
May 3, 2017
A villager was reportedly killed and three others injured as fighting broke out between Burmese government forces and the Ta’ang National Liberation...
May 3, 2017
Slamming the government for a lack of transparency, local residents boycotted an April 29 meeting to discuss the Tigyit coal-fired power plant.
May 2, 2017
A number of rural families in southern Shan State’s Laikha Township are to be given back lands that were confiscated from them by the Burmese army...
May 2, 2017
Some 30 local residents of Hsipaw Township in northern Shan State marched through the streets on Thursday, demanding the return of lands which were...
PHOTO BY SHRF: Coal mining site in Nam Ma area.
April 28, 2017
Local residents in eastern Shan State’s Mong Phyak Township have called for a gold-mining company to cease operations as the work is damaging their...
April 25, 2017
Shan State politicians and ethnic armed organizations are furious that preparations for the state’s political dialogue were left to the last minute...
April 25, 2017
Several delegates have criticized the Shan State regional-level dialogue as a hastily arranged and unprepared event.
April 25, 2017
Following a meeting at the powerful Wa Army’s summit, the four Northern Alliance members announced they will no longer meet with the government...
April 20, 2017
Some 300 local residents staged a demonstration in Muse Township on Tuesday to protest a plan by the Namkham-based Myoma People’s Militia to take...
Coal mining site in Mong Kung Township
April 18, 2017
The Pyae Aung Hein and Hein Mitter coal-mining companies have both agreed to halt operations at their sites following a protest by some 4,000...
Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAO) leaders' meeting on 8-9 April in Chiang Mai
April 11, 2017
If you want to know who’s really running the show in Myanmar, look no further than the Tatmadaw, Lieutenant General Yawd Serk said at a summit this...