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Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) members in Monghsu township, Southern Shan State, are still reportedly being denied access to voters’ list and polling station officers’ list even though the election day is only 8 days left, local sources re...
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Polling station officers in Shan State South’s Loilem township were reportedly directed by Township Election Commission members to give advance signatures for 150 ballot papers each saying they were for advance voters, according to sources close to offi...
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A report released today by the Thai Burma Border Consortium accuses Burma’s military regime of “gross economic mismanagement, massive under-investment in social services and a climate where human rights are abused with impunity.”
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Thailand’s Third Regional Army that oversees security along the Thai-Burma border has imposed stricter restrictions on its temporary border checkpoints following a report yesterday that a number of people had been detained on charges of planning to blow...
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Local people in Shan State South’s Pa-O self-administered zone are reportedly being forced to cast vote for Pa-O National Organization (PNO) by the party candidates, local sources reported.On 19 October, U Nay Win Htun, a well-known businessman-turned-c...
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Lao Xingguang, 65, the leader of the Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP), that is fielding 8 candidates in Shan State North including himself, maybe close to druglord Liu Guoxi, but he is even closer to the former “King of Opium” Luo Xinghan, said...
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Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) is reported to have regained support from people in Shan State East after losing access to conduct its campaign for a few weeks due to regional instability, local sources in Shan State East.
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A 4 day long clash of Pa-O National Army (PNA) and Mark Kieng militia unit had taken place in Southern Shan State’s Namzang Township recently, local sources said.The clash started on 18 October to 21 October resulting in 4 men on the PNA side dead and o...
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Burma Army soldiers based in Shan State South’s in Mongnawng were reported to have staged a mocked battle near ceasefire areas, local sources said.“The attack was organized with twofold aim: for the villagers to abstain from supporting rebel groups an...
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U Thein Sein, Chairman of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told party members in Shan State North during his recent visit that the party already has a way to deal with rival parties, sources from Sino-Burma border said.
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To the junta, its power, money, guns and laws are simply not enough; it still has to use every advantage to win the upcoming elections, according to sources on the Sino-Burma border.
The latest one is that the local Election Commission in Muse township h...
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Police officers manning understrength checkpoints on the road network in Shan State South, where both the non-ceasefire Shan State Army (SSA) South and the “almost out of” ceasefire SSA North are active, have been withdrawn, according to reports comin...
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The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), backed solidly by the military government, appears to be doing better in its election campaigns in the country than in the cities, according to sources from inside Shan State.
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Ongoing recruitment campaign of anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ can unintentionally help the cause of the ruling military junta, especially the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), according to border watchers on th...
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The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP) is merely a front for the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) of the ruling military junta, according to insider sources.“Many Kokang and ethnic Chinese will be disappointed when they learn that,” ...
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Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) 14 October 2010 “I have to go back. I can’t miss the celebrations!” An opposition leader from Shan State, who is away from the border to SHAN, 13 October 2010
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The Shan Nationalities Democratic Party, popularly known as the White Tiger party by its logo, is winning support in many townships and meeting indifference in others, as the countdown to the polls displays at 25 today, according to sources from Shan Stat...
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The junta-appointed Election Commissions’s announcement on 16 September removing whole or parts of 32 townships off the upcoming poll map might not be the last, according to sources on the Thai-Burma border.
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Explosion of the ordnance depot in Shan State East’s Monghsat yesterday morning could be heard from across the border in Thailand, according to sources on the Thai-Burma border.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known. As the place was surroun...
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Members of Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) and Taang (Palaung) National Party (TNP) in Shan State North’s Kutkhai Township, are reported to have been facing restriction in conducting campaign by local authorities, according to local sources.
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