Shan Herald Agency for News

December 23, 2025
Aungpan residents show little interest in junta-run election
December 22, 2025
Over 1,000 Ywangan IDPs urgently require food aid
December 19, 2025
Junta, PNO torch Pekon Township village
April 5, 2016
Militia Pressures Villagers To Agree To Coal Excavations
Manpang People’s Militia coerced leaders and residents of several villages to attend a meeting about coal excavations in Lashio district in northern...
April 5, 2016
Hluttaw Session Halted After Complaints of Lack of Transparency
The Shan State Hluttaw session was halted on 4 April, its ninth day, due to a lack of transparency in a proposal to form eight ministries for the...
April 4, 2016
Possible summit between armed groups in the works
Following the holding of a fourth informal meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand on March 27, a group of ethnic armed groups from Burma have agreed to hold...
March 31, 2016
Eight NCA signatories form steering committee at Chiang Mai summit
The leaders of eight ethnic armed groups who signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with Burma’s central government last November, held a...
March 28, 2016
NLD to appoint Shan State Chief Minister despite calls to give position to...
The National League for Democracy (NLD) will appoint its own party member to lead Shan State as Chief Minister, according to the party's spokesperson...
SNDP Annual Meeting
March 25, 2016
Sai Ai Pao Re-Elected as SNDP Chairman
Sai Ai Pao was re-elected to serve a second term as chairman of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) on 20 March at the SNDP Annual Meeting...
March 24, 2016
72 Arrested in Shan State Drug Rehab Raid
The Burma Army raided a drug rehabilitation centre in Muse Township, Central Shan State and arrested 72 people, most of them patients, for...
March 22, 2016
Activists Protest Mong Ton Dam Project
Members of the Save the Salween Network gathered at Wan Sala village in Shan state’s Mong Ton township on 14 March to mark International Rivers Day...
March 18, 2016
Burma Army Launches Air Strikes Against TNLA
Since the beginning of March the Burma Army has launched 15 offensives, many with jet fighters and helicopter gunships, against the Ta’ang National...
The NLD's Dr Lin Htut, the MP for Lashio
March 12, 2016
NLD MP Tipped to Become Shan State Chief Minister
The National League for Democracy’s (NLD’s) Dr Linn Htut, who represents Lashio in the Shan State Hluttaw (parliament), is favourite to become the...
Sai Nyunt Lwin
March 10, 2016
SNLD General Secretary Tipped to be Vice-President
U Sai Nyunt Lwin, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) General Secretary tipped to become vice-president, will travel to Naypyidaw on 9...
Dr Sai Aung Tun
March 10, 2016
Burmese Historian Named Peace Ambassador
The Indian World Peace Movement Trust (WPMT) named Burmese historian Dr Sai Aung Tun as a 2016 Ambassador of peace at a ceremony in Rangoon on 5...