News
July 20, 2010
| Phanida
Progressive Party chairman has called “groundless” recent claims made by Burmese junta minister Aung Thaung that the party was ineligible to register...
July 19, 2010
| Phanida
Farmers in the northern Burmese state of Kachin are preparing to sue a company with close ties to Burma’s ruling military junta for confiscating...
July 19, 2010
Chin people abroad held an emergency meeting about the Chin National Front (CNF) where 50 people attended, including Mr. Zincung, chairman of the CNF...
July 19, 2010
| Maung Aye
An Arakanese political party, the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, has opened branch offices in several townships in Arakan State as part of...
July 19, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah/Emily Hobbs
A document received by SHAN from an unidentified source on the border contains yet more allegations of conspiracy between Burma’s ethnic resistance...
July 18, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Union Solidarity and Development Association led by Senior General Than Shwe is in the process of disbanding and its assets are being transferred to...
July 18, 2010
The Burmese traffic police and volunteer firefighters have begun to seize two wheelers without license since early this month in Hakha town, Chin...
July 18, 2010
Working to a plan, where it wants to garner the maximum number of votes in Kachin state, the Burmese junta-sponsored ethnic Kachin party floated...
July 16, 2010
| Myint Maung
A Rangoon court has extended by 10 years the detention period for a National League for Democracy (Liberated Area – Malaysia Branch) member already...
July 16, 2010
| Arr Mee
Hundreds of Burmese nationals, looking for jobs in Thailand, have registered with a job sponsoring company in the border town of Myawaddy...
July 16, 2010
| Myo Thein
Two earthquakes, which witnesses described more by sound than shakes, struck in quick succession at 1:55 p.m. today near Mandalay, ...
July 16, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
The military regime invited seven persons from each political party in Rangoon to the 63rd Martyrs’ Day ceremony on Monday, which commemorates the...
July 16, 2010
The City Sessions Court of Calcutta in India sentenced 34 Arakanese and Karen rebels to three years in prison and fines of 6,000 rupees on three...
July 16, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah/ Emily Hobbs (Shanland)
A respected townsperson, who had agreed to join the Shan National Democratic Party (SNDP) in Shan State South’s Monghsu township was reportedly...
July 15, 2010
| Salai Tun
One of two Burmese merchant seamen airlifted to a Malaysian hospital after sustaining severe burns in a shipboard explosion was transferred to...