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Lt.Gen. Yawd Serk, leader of Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA)
October 9, 2015
The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S) will sign Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on October 15 their...
Sao Mae, third from left, at the award ceremony in Colorado with her and Sao Kya Seng’s two daughters, Sao Kennari, far left, and Sao Mayari, second from left (Photo courtesy of Sai Awn Murng)
October 9, 2015
Last Thursday the Colorado School of Mines posthumously conferred on Sao Kya Seng, the last Saophalong (ruling prince) of the Shan State of Hsipaw,...
October 9, 2015
Mu Estar — The majority of rural residents in Karenni State have a lack of an understanding about the voting process, says the deputy director of...
October 8, 2015
Sai Aung Myo Lwin — The murder of two members of the Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party (TNDP) in separate incidents in Kachin State's jade...
October 8, 2015
The future for the two largest Shan ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N/SSPP) and the Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA...
October 8, 2015
Ten Kayan representatives from the Kayan Women’s Organization have submitted official requests to monitor the election as individuals, says the...
Map showing flood-affected villages (Photo courtesy of Japhet Jakui)
October 8, 2015
The devastating impacts of August’s floods in eastern Shan State, which destroyed homes and farms in four villages and killed five people, were the...
October 8, 2015
U Win Maung, the Laha Gyay Village Administrator was sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for having links to the Arakan Army (AA)...
October 8, 2015
Villagers from villages along Eastern Donna Range gathered at Htee Mae Wah Kee village in Myawaddy Township on October 4th to show their support for...
October 8, 2015
Burma’s Government is engaged in the illegal displacement of thousands of its own citizens, a leading human rights organization has concluded.
October 8, 2015
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Trade Finance Program (TFP) and Cooperative Bank (CB Bank) today signed an agreement that enables the TFP to...
October 8, 2015
A report released on October 5 details human rights violations committed by the Myanmar government in the development of the Upper Paunglaung Dam...