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September 4, 2009
Even as tension between the Wa and the Burmese Army, which recently captured Kokang, mounts, families and relatives of the Wa leadership have been...
September 4, 2009
| Mungpi
The Rangoon divisional court on Friday accepted the request by Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers for an appeal on the conviction that has confined the Nobel...
September 3, 2009
An environment organization has urged the military junta to impose a nationwide ban on the use of eco-unfriendly polythene bags in Burma...
September 3, 2009
| Ni Moe Myint
All industrial zones in Rangoon have been instructed by the City Electric Power Supply Committee to direct factories to install the ‘capacitor bank...
September 3, 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers on Thursday filed an appeal in the Rangoon divisional court regarding the sentencing and are preparing to submit their...
September 3, 2009
Ruined notes of Burmese currency in small denominations are being used by people in Arakan State despite that the government authority announced last...
September 3, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Over 100 aid workers from several organizations remained stranded in Laogai till yesterday due to adoption of hit and run tactics on the road by some...
September 3, 2009
The leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), following a heated morning session, have decided not to respond to Naypyitaw’s demand that Peng...
September 2, 2009
| May Kyaw
Nearly 6,000 people, who fled to China because of the war between the Burmese Army and the Kokang troops, have gone back to their homes. In the...
September 2, 2009
Military brass from China and Burma went into a huddle on Monday (August 31) regarding the junta's military offensive against the ethnic Kokang...
September 2, 2009
| Usa Pichai
Environmentalists have urged the Chinese government to halt plans to construct dams on the Salween River following renewed clashes between the...
September 2, 2009
More constables are being inducted by the riot police for deployment in western Burma’s Arakan state to thwart possible public unrest before and...
September 2, 2009
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), better known as the Kokang Army, is still fighting in southern Kokang with its ally the Wa, a...
September 2, 2009
Many readers have told SHAN they had never heard of Kokang until 1989, when the former ethnic forces of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) mutinied...
September 2, 2009
The Burmese army has ordered the ward councils in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Sittwe, to collect 25 people aged 18 to 35 from their respective...