Sai Leun, the leader of the Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), practically warned the country’s ruling generals yesterday that for the people to live in peace, freed...
Over the last 10 years, the ruling Burmese junta has claimed the apprehension of hundreds of drug dealers, the confiscation of thousands of kilos of opium and heroin, and the destr...
"The government is bankrupt and the generals have all the money," reported Mizzima News, on 25 April, quoting a member of an International NGO in Rangoon.
Since the military coup in 1962, Burma has been the most repressive regime in the world for freedom of the press. Every media organisation in Burma has to register and present a copy of their each publications to the Press Scrutiny Board (PSB), which...
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.