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Farmers’ Conference at So-Hlar-Kuu Village
March 3, 2015
Karenni (Kayah) State farmers have decided to form a farmers' union and elected an 18 member central committee at the end of a three-day long farmers...
Police Receive Election Security Training in Taunggyi
March 3, 2015
S.H.A.N. police officers received election security training at the state police office in Taunggyi Town, Shan State on 23 February.
Crashed Government Truck Resulting from Fighting in the Kokang Area
March 3, 2015
Ethnic armed forces and the Burma Army fought three battles in northern Burma in one day, 24 February.
Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)
March 2, 2015
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has elected 90 percent of its party representatives to contest the upcoming 2015 elections in Mon...
A Woman Casts her Vote
March 2, 2015
Mon State’s voter registration for Burma’s upcoming 2015 general elections will open the first week of March. The State’s registration process will...
March 2, 2015
A delegation, advocating on behalf of refugees and displaced people from Burma took their cause to Britain’s Parliament in an attempt to highlight...
March 2, 2015
Fighting in Mywaddy Township between troops from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the government militia Border Guard Force (BGF) on...
March 2, 2015
The Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) issued a statement alleging that Burma Army had looted villages near Laogai.
March 2, 2015
Four boarding houses of the Children Development Center (CDC), a migrant school on the Thai border town of Mae Sot, burnt to the ground on Wednesday...
February 27, 2015
A Baptist missionary tour that did not have a township administrator’s letter of recommendation was asked for 200,000 kyats by a Burma Army commander...
S.H.A.N Editor Sia Hseng Ya Interviews Lt. Gen. Yawd Serk
February 27, 2015
Following complaints that people are being forcibly conscripted into the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) S.H.A.N...
Kayah State Farmer's Conference
February 26, 2015
Sun Phyo Tun, Kantarawaddy Times – The Burma Army and private companies own most of the land in Kayah State according to Sayar Kawrio the organiser...