Shan Herald Agency for News

Photo by SHRF- Residents in Mong Khur of Hsipaw Township staged a protest against Salween Dams on August 23, 2015.
August 19, 2016
Twenty-six Shan-based organizations on Wednesday sent an open letter to Burma’s State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, calling on her...
August 18, 2016
The bodies of three local men have been discovered in shallow graves in Namtu Township. The cause of death is as yet unknown.
Photo by SHAN- Yawnghwe Palace entrance
August 17, 2016
Sao Haymar Thaike, the daughter of Burma’s first president, Sao Shwe Thaike, has spoken out against a plan to convert Yawnghwe Palace compound into a...
The first JICM meeting, 16 October 2015. (Photo: burmalibrary.org)
August 17, 2016
In response to the 8 signatory ethnic armed organization (EAO)s’ formal request on 11 August, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will soon be...
August 16, 2016
Burma’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) have objected to a plan to construct a new...
August 15, 2016
According to representatives of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) who were attending meetings in Chiangmai last week, prior to the meeting with the...
August 13, 2016
The secretary of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has said that their participation at the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC...
Photo by SHAN: Migrant representatives receive cheque from the Chiang Mai province governor Pawin Chamniprasart at Chiang Mai provincial hall.
August 11, 2016
Some seven months after being laid off by the Perfetto Limited Partnership Company in northern Thailand, 100 Burmese migrant workers have finally...
August 11, 2016
Seven Burmese soldiers were brought to a military court in Lashio on Tuesday in a landmark case, which has received national and international...
August 11, 2016
A large armed group in civilian clothes allegedly arrested suspected drug dealers in northern Shan State.
Khun Htun Oo, leader of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), speaks at the 28th anniversary of the 8888 Uprising in Dhammapiya Monastery in Thingangyun Township, Rangoon.
August 10, 2016
The leader of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy has encouraged everyone to support the upcoming Union Peace Conference (also called the 21st...
August 9, 2016
A new ethnic party that founders say will work on national affairs was announced during a recent press conference in the northern Thai city Chiang...