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New arrival refugees from Burma have been pressured to look for jobs while they are on fulltime studies, and there is also an issue on accessing Burmese interpreters while they meet the Australian government agency Centrelink and Job Network.
The petition of a disabled Shan migrant worker, who was paralyzed in December 2006 while working at a hotel construction site in Chiangmai, was denied by the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand today, according to Thailand-based Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF).
Within a decade, many Shan websites and blogs have been multiplying and distributing a large amount of information about Shan State in order to serve the Shan community in Burma and in exile as well as for Burma-watchers in the international community, according to a survey made by SHAN.
The opening of the annual Shan New Year festival in Chiangmai on Thursday, 27 November, will be presided over by the Northern capital’s woman mayor Duentemduang na Chiangmai, according to its organizer.
There will be no activities and campaigns undertaken by the exile groups including the anti-junta Shan State Army (SSA) during the 14th ASEAN Summit on 13-17 December in Chiangmai, according to several interviews made by SHAN.
The PaO National Liberation Organization (PNLO) that is active in the Shan State’s PaO-majority deep south would welcome a drug free project led by Thailand, according to the group’s spokesman Hkun Hsoi Hto.
Bao Youri, elder brother of Wa supreme leader Bao Youxiang, was on a 4-day visit to Mongton township, opposite Chiangmai, last week, according to border sources.
Opposition heavyweights attending the consultation meeting hosted recently by the Chiangmai-based National Reconciliation Programme(NRP) had roundly rejected the 2010 general elections being planned by Burma’s ruling military junta.
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A reliable source close to the United Wa State Army (UWSA) says the group has stopped export of drugs into Thailand.
The Chiangmai based Workers Solidarity Association (WSA) will not accept new identifications called passport documents due to be offered by Burma’s ruling military junta, according to a senior member of the group.
Burma army units active in areas of Mongkeung township, southern Shan State, has been forcing many villagers to porter and guide them during the recent operations against the Shan State Army (SSA) South, according to sources.
Burma army continued build-up of more forces and weapons along the Thai-Burma border where the Shan State Army (SSA-South) and United Wa State Army (UWSA) are strongly active, according to reliable sources.
The National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), better known as Mongla group for its main base on the Sino-Burma opposite Daluo, has agreed to consider the junta proposal to form a political party to contest the 2010 elections, according to a reliable source from the Thai-Burma border.