Crop failures causing more people to migrate to Thailand
Because of a harsh weather, drought and crop failures in Shan State, hundreds of people are migrating to Thailand almost every day from the beginning of this year, according to sources from the Thai-Burma borde...
Junta’s forced labor forcing militia men to run away
Due to excessive chores in the Burma Army, many members of the newly formed militia units in Nakawngmu, a village in Mongton township, opposite Chiangmai’s Chiangdao district, are reportedly fleeing from the ...
Chinese officials meeting junta on Wa
Chinese security officials are making yet another attempt to patch up the deteriorating relationship between the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the ruling military junta, followin...
20 killed in ambush
A surprise attack by the non-ceasefire Shan State Army (SSA) South in 13 March in Shan State South put to rout a 42-strong Burma Army patrol leaving 20 dead on the battlefield, acc...
A dozen killed, 38 injured in bus accident
Over a dozen passengers were killed and about 38 were wounded in a bus accident on 16 March, on the Tachilek-Kengtung highway, Shan State East.
Currently, the injured passengers are...
Weapon parts seized in Thailand could be for Burma’s rebels
Thai police think the illegally made M79 grenade launcher parts seized in Ayutthaya on 13 March and more in the neighboring Samut Prakan on the next day are for the United Wa State...
THE ORION STARS
Introduction
The West has St. Valentine and Romeo and Juliet. The Shans, a sub-family of the Tai race, one of the major inhabitants of Southeast Asia, spanning from Yunnan to Assam and from Kachin State of Burma to Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, have Khu...
Weekly Diary, No.392 (7 March – 12 March 2010)
- BURMA VJ MISSES OSCAR!
- JUNTA RELEASES ELECTION LAWS!
- ELECTION COMMISSION HEAD A GENERAL!
- WA WARNED OF IMPENDING OFFENSIVE!
Myanmar's opium crop
Steady hand on the till
But who is to blame for the spike in cultivation?
IN THE mountains of Myanmar's strife-torn Shan state, the colourful blossom of opium poppies has become a more frequent sight of late. A businessman based in the Shan state notes...
Message on The 59th Anniversary of Shan National Day
It is interesting to note that the linkage and emergence of the modern Shan State, its national day and the formation of the Union of Burma are so intertwined; it is almost impossible to discuss the making of this historical formation separately.
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