Police seize drugs worth over $1 million in Shan and Karen State
Drugs worth approximately 1.6 billion kyat ($1.15 million USD) were seized in Shan State over the weekend.
Drugs worth approximately 1.6 billion kyat ($1.15 million USD) were seized in Shan State over the weekend.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
With 1.2 million refugees originating from Burma and tens of thousands more uprooted inside the country, the Southeast Asian nation was the source of the fourth-largest population of displaced people worldwide at the end of 2017, a new report by the UN refugee agency.
Both meetings had been scheduled as preparatory discussions to a round of national-level political dialogue due to begin next month in Langkho, southern Shan State.
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The state government accuses the Shan army of contravening a state-level agreement outlining areas of control and prompting hostilities with Burmese troops.
Accidents Lead Story News Shan
Both the elder sister and the niece of Burma’s former vice-president Sai Mauk Kham were killed in a fire at their home this morning.
Ceasefire groups urged Naypyidaw to facilitate “national-level political discussions” in Shan and Arakan states.
Two Kachin pastors detained by the Burma Army have been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, according to the President’s Office.
Human rights organisations have called on the government to investigate the disappearance of two Kachin pastors in northern Shan State.
Relief workers say that these internally displaced persons are urgently in need of blankets and warm clothing as the cold season sets in.
Govt administrator says it may take some time to repair schools that were partially destroyed by artillery shelling during the two-week conflict.
Conflict Lead Story News Peace Process
The eight militias, including the KNU, said that they strongly object to any attempt to label the Northern Alliance as terrorists.
Military-run Myawady News reported today that the Burmese units had to call in air support to defend their positions.
More than 70 persons had been travelling by road to attend a wedding in Muse District when they were stopped and questioned by Burmese soldiers.
The Burmese military is “on a path to annihilate the ethnic rebels,” instead of looking for a peaceful solution, say coalition.
Military reports that a convoy was en route to the battlefront in Hsenwi Township when a remote-controlled IED exploded in its path.
More than 3,000 have fled across the border to China to seek shelter amid the chaos in northern Shan State.
Local MP says MOC-1 launched artillery strikes towards a village outside the town amid clashes with TNLA.
The market in the northern Shan State town of Namlan was devastated by fire on Sunday.
The police deputy-commander said that drugs are frequently seized at Takaw Bridge, but this was the biggest seizure at that checkpoint so far this year.
Crime Lead Story Natural resources News
Local authorities put a stop to some Chinese mining ventures in the area in 2014 following complaints by local villagers, but illegal operations have continued.
The group also reportedly called for the Tatmadaw to release two villagers who were detained during a raid on a SSA-S facility in the village of Panpwe.
Burmese military media have reported that Kokang rebels abducted five workers from a hydropower plant in Laogai.
Conflict Drugs Lead Story News Shan
According to the SSA-S, the Burmese army provoked a firefight when it raided what the Shan militia claims was a drug rehabilitation camp in Tonlaung.
Khun Sai, director of Shan think tank Union Institute, suggested the fight could be a Wa incursion in Mongla territory under orders of the UWSA leadership.
“The Tatmadaw fired six artillery rounds around six in the morning, and two landed right in the centre of the village, hitting three children who were outside playing,” an NGO worker told DVB.
Electricity Environment Lead Story News
A series of small islands on the Salween River is at risk of ‘going under’ if construction of a hydro-power dam goes ahead as planned, says a local NGO.
The NLD has finally broken its silence over the controversial dismissal of its executive members in Shan State by the party’s secretary, Win Htein.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Shan
Kyaukme has been for many years a peaceful town, its ethnic Shan and Ta’ang residents co-existing in relative harmony. But armed conflict is threatening to tear the communities apart.
NLD spokesman Win Htein defends after the fallout from his decision to dismiss five executive members of the party in Shan State.
Ta’ang party offered to mediate the talks and help build trust between the Shan State Army-South and TNLA.