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It is not just Thailand’s recent call for unregistered migrant workers to get themselves registered that has been attracting poor people from Burma to the kingdom, but the unusually early rains that destroyed the crops-coupled with the government’s re...
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According to reports from Shan political prisoners’ family members, almost all the Shan leaders sentenced to long term imprisonment by the military junta since 2005, are undergoing health problems each, but mentally are still strong except for Sai Myo W...
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Han Lay, or Hsailed (Race of the Sun) as Shans know him, is a fine orator, apart from being one of the most well known cartoonists from Burma.
I learned this when I was among the 40 plus admirers who went to listen to his 2 hour talk in Chiangmai today (...
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Many quake victims from Talerh (Talay) and Mong Lane (Monglin) village tracts of Shan State East’s Tachilek township, where a 6.8 magnitude of earthquake had struck on 24 March, are still living in tarpaulin shelters, as buildings materials are not enou...
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The second winning party in Shan State, Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) more popularly known as the “White Tiger” party, is calling on the government to help solve the problems of land confiscation taking place across the Shan State by the ...
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Lt-Gen Yawdserk, leader of the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA), says so far no party concerned has approached him though there has been a lot of false accusations leveled against him and his movement, since 4 Chinese engineers from Tasang hydropower ...
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Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), better known as the White Tiger party, the second winning party in Shan State at the 2010 elections, is planning to work together with some Thai companies in mining projects in Shan State as well as others...
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8 days after they made their vanishing act on May 17, there is still no news of the 4 Chinese engineers and a local interpreter from the Chinese firm working at the Tasang hydropower dam site, on both their whereabouts and whether they are still alive, ac...
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4 Chinese workers from the Tasang hydropower project disappeared on 17 May probably causing a pain in the backside for President Thein Sein who is scheduled to visit Beijing the day after tomorrow, 26 May, according to sources from Mongton, opposite Chian...
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Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA)’s political wing, Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), has officially declared that his group RCSS/SSA and the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) better known as SSA...
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Dozens of militia men from the battlefields in Shan State North’s Tangyan township are reportedly fleeing almost every week since April after they were deployed to fight against the Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), better known as...
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All militia units across from townships in the Shan State North, under the command of the Northeastern Region Command (NERC), were instructed to closely watch every movement of the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ and Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South, acco...
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Aung Kyaw Zaw, son of the legendary Thirty Comrades’ still surviving member General Kyaw Zaw and himself a known authority on China, told SHAN yesterday the message that Gen Xu Caihou brought to Burma during his 4 day visit, 12-15 May, was a clear warni...
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Security in Shan State North’s Tangyan Township, one of the battlefields of the Burma Army and the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North, have reportedly been tightened since a bomb exploded in the area last weekend, according to local sources....
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One of the most prominent Shan political prisoners Maj-Gen Hso Ten of Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ that is fighting against the Burma Army since March, is in urgent need to receive medical treatment due to his failing health condition, accordin...
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Having suffered at least 300 casualties and the offensive drawing out from planned one week to two months, the Burma Army is using more and more local People’s Militias against the Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP / SSA), better known a...
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Early this month, the Burma Army’s 15 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) that were dispatched to Kehsi township, where the offensive was launched against the Shan State Progress Party/ Shan State Army (SSPP/ SSA), better known as the SSA North, since D-D...
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Five Wa fighters of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) 171st Military Region based along Thai-Burma border, who came in a four-wheel truck, were reportedly attacked by Burma Army soldiers leaving one dead and the truck damaged, according to sources.
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7 Burma Army officers and 2 privates were killed while 8-15 others were injured by an ambush staged by the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ of Gen Yawd Serk in Shan State South’s Mongkeung township, according to local sources....
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Thai-Burma Relations
A Thai coal mining company, Saraburi, a subsidiary of Ital-Thai that was granted a 30 year coal concession in Shan State East’s Mongkok sub-township, Monghsat township, 70km north of Thailand’s Chiangrai border, told a meeting he...
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