Wei Hsaitang, one of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) veteran commanders together with 3 battalions of tough fighters from Panghsang Headquarters on the Sino-Burma border were deployed to the UWSA’s 171st Mili...
Latest reports from the Thai-Burma border say all junta personnel from every department in Shan State East’s Mongton and Monghsat townships where the United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s 171st Military Region is...
The ruling military junta last week started passing new instructions to its bases facing ceasefire groups: Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’, United Wa State Army (UWSA) and Nation...
According to the leader of the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ Lt-Gen Yawdserk, the real struggle for freedom will begin only after the elections and not before or...
An estimated 150 households from three villages located near a uranium mining site in Rubyland Mongok (Mogok in Burmese), 200 km north of Mandalay are to be relocated from the area...
ELECTION 2010 --- Shan State
When voters in Shan State’s 55 electorates go to the polls on 7 November they will have 12 political parties to choose from, but not all 12 parties will contest all of the 55 electorates. Only the military regime’s bac...
Deccan Chronicle
4 September 2010
Energy experts warn that an acute shortage of uranium is going to hit the nuclear energy industry. Dr Yogi Goswami, co-director of the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of Florida warns that “the proven ...
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.