Shan Herald Agency for News

January 9, 2026
Junta issues fresh warning to remove shops around Taunggyi stadium
January 9, 2026
Junta forces Mongyawng residents to vote in election
January 9, 2026
Section of Mandalay–Myitkyina Highway reopens after nearly a month closed
December 29, 2018
Farmers Meet With Government Officials
Farmers meet with government officials to hammer out issues over land tenure. In the first meeting of its kind, farmers from southern Shan State...
December 29, 2018
Pa’O Civilians Killed by Shan Soldiers
The killing of ethnic Pa’O civilians by Shan soldiers spurs a community to seek justice. Thousands of Pa’O, an ethnic group in Myanmar, protested in...
December 29, 2018
Coal Mining Company’s License Renewed
Coal extraction company gets the green light to operate in Shan State next year despite polluting the air, land and water for nearly two decades. A...
December 24, 2018
TATMADAW’S PEACE OVERTURES: Tactical military move or an offer of real...
The statement from the Tatmadaw comes after three ethnic armed groups that had previously been frozen out of the peace process – the Myanmar National...
Op-ed
December 14, 2018
Myanmar’s Ethnic Armed Conflict in 2018: Unabated protracted war and...
As the year ends, protracted ethnic conflict has expanded into the Rakhine State. The Arakan Army (AA), a new outfit that was formed only in 2009,...
Features
December 13, 2018
Dam-building in Shan State: Militarization and subjugation the main...
On December 5, Shan communities and local Members of Parliaments held a press conference in Yangon, City Hotel, to call for an immediate cancellation...
Analysis
November 30, 2018
A Brief Commentary on Burma’s/Myanmar’s Civil War
Foreword Burma, a name of the country which has been used in the English language, is also known as Myanmar, after the military junta, the State Law...
Analysis
November 27, 2018
Inter-ethnic conflict in Shan State creates a cold war-like animosity
As if the problem in Rakhine State, that has provoked international and UN condemnation on Naypyitaw and ever since the Rohingya’s exodus of some 700...
Photo by Muse youth
November 26, 2018
With Trucks at a Standstill, Tensions Run High at Shan-China Border
Chinese authorities are closely inspecting lorries coming into the country from Burma. Trucks were lined up at the Mang Weing border gate in Muse,...
November 26, 2018
Three Civilians Killed as Armed Groups Clash in Hsipaw
‘I don’t understand why they are fighting each other,’ a villager said of the ethnic armed organizations. Three civilians—including one 10-year-old...
November 15, 2018
500 villagers flee as Tatmadaw, SSPP/SSA combats in Hsipaw
Over 500 internally displaced people fled and took refuge at a monastery following clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Shan State Progressive Party...
Op-ed
Photo by – NCA-S EAO/ PPST meeting, Chiang Mai 10-11/10/2018
November 13, 2018
BURMA’S PEACE PROCESS: From stagnation to drawback?
With the recent confirmation of the Karen National Union (KNU) statement on November 10 made known, that it is withholding its non-participation...