Shan Herald Agency for News

2009-01-19
Ambushes staged by the Shan State Army (SSA) South on Burmese Army units on their opium taxing expeditions resulted in the recent military...
2009-01-16
A villager in Selan sub-township, Muse township, northern Shan State was arrested after he was found carrying a copy of SHAN's monthly Independence...
2009-01-14
The newly formed Shan State Congress's Executive Committee will hold its first meeting on January 30 on the Thai-Burma border, following the decision...
2009-01-14
Thai authorities have issued extension of work permits for migrant workers from Burma, Cambodia and Laos where they are to receive one year work-...
2009-01-13
Despite a flurry of activity that has been apparently directed against the Wa, the real objective of the Burmese Army's military preparations could...
2009-01-12
With a literacy rate of 3 per cent, access to education for half a million Wa living in the isolated hills of Eastern Shan State is being further...
2009-01-10
Sniffing glue is a new phenomenon among the youth in Shan State as a substitute to other drugs, according to several sources. In northern Shan State...
2009-01-08
The Burmese military Junta authorities in Southern Shan State held the inaugural ceremony of the Kengtawng Hydro power plant in Kengtawng sub-...
2009-01-06
Many people from several townships in Shan State were not invited to participate in the 61st anniversary of Independence Day and even more were...
2008-12-27
Saraburi Coal Mining, a Thai firm that has recently been granted concession by Naypyitaw to extract coal from Mongkok, 70 km north of Chiangrai...
2008-12-25
Junta-backed National Unity Party (NUP) is confident it will win the upcoming 2010 elections, according to a reliable source from Mon State. On 1 May...
2008-12-25
A senior Wa official has promised full cooperation in the crackdown on Thai banknote forgers that reportedly originate from their own ranks...
2008-12-24
A week after the cabinet meeting, Thai authorities have issued application forms for hiring Burmese migrant workers in order to enable them to...
2008-12-24
A new venue to air issues facing Shan State, the biggest ethnic state in the Union of Burma, and its people, provisionally named Shan State Congress...
2008-12-24
The Sao Thusandi Leadership Award ceremony was held recently in Chiang Mai to recognize the achievements of its first recipient, Sai Phu Murng. The...

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