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September 18, 2015
Locals are concerned by the Burma Army’s use of helicopters to monitor movements of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA)...
September 18, 2015
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today, 17 September, released a new report following extensive undercover investigations into the timber...
September 18, 2015
A proposed protest against the Chinese company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), at Taung Falar Village in Ann Township, Rakhine State...
September 17, 2015
The head of Maungdaw District Traffic Police, Thaung Htay, has been applying traffic law differently to Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas since...
September 17, 2015
Seventy years after World War II ended, withered and mostly impoverished veterans will gather at the graveside of a British officer who almost no one...
September 17, 2015
Two people were shot and wounded when an unknown armed group in Ye Township shot at and robbed six buses and a truck travelling from Rangoon to Tavoy...
September 17, 2015
The government has claimed that until recently it was unaware of the existence of two of the ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) that it has banned...
September 17, 2015
The Indian government finally banned the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) for five years on Wednesday.
September 16, 2015
Dr. Sasa, founder of the Chin community based organisation (CBO), Health and Hope, met with representatives of the Chin State Government, religious...
Photo by SHAN- The United Wa State Army (UWSA) soldiers march on the 20th anniversary in the Headquater Pangsang in 2009Photo by SHAN
September 16, 2015
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) will not have a chance to demand an autonomous state if they do not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA),...
September 16, 2015
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) vice chair General N’Ban La met with President Thein Sein on 9 September in Naypyitaw in, apparently,...
September 16, 2015
Representatives of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and five other countries will witness the government and ethnic armed...