News Myanmar Shan: The bridge to Asean
Expanding bilateral ties with Myanmar is vital for India’s ‘Act East’ targets. With a creative blend of diplomacy and culture, both nations can only scale new heights, says Vikas Kalyani India has emerged as the fastest growing economy in the world. It believes in forging multilateral
News Myanmar Shan: Burmese Parents Are Holding Fake Funerals to Keep Their Children Safe
“I felt so strange. I wanted to shout, ‘I’m not dead!’” he told Al-Jazeera. Ake Xi’s family is situated in Shan State, in the east-central region of Myanmar which borders China. Certain armed groups ...
News Myanmar Shan: Act on abuses in Myanmar
The UN’s special rapporteur on Myanmar said Asean has a big role to play in the Buddhist-majority country. In a press release issued on Thursday, Yanghee Lee observed that human rights violations in Myanmar are “creating increasingly serious issues for South and South East Asia”. Myanmar is a member of Asean, a 10-member regional group.
News Myanmar Shan: Diving into sex work
Mai Janta, 29, came to Thailand from Shan State with her family when she was a year old. Her brother had been conscripted to the Myanmar army and her family feared that he would never return if he had to join.
News Myanmar Shan: Shan State drug blitz nets big haul
Myanmar’s army has launched heavy crackdowns in the eastern Shan State on the border with Thailand to cut off supplies of illegal drugs to be smuggled into Thailand. Border sources said the operations ...
News Myanmar Shan: In Myanmar, a Former General Repents
Shan and Kachin militia groups are fighting for autonomy. “There will be more war,” he said, sitting in a teak gazebo in a vast leadership compound in the country’s capital, Naypyidaw, occupied by ...
News Myanmar Shan: UN experts urge 'financial isolation' of Myanmar military
The UN fact-finding mission was not granted access to Myanmar itself, but during their visit to Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, the investigators met exiled representatives from the Chin ...
News Myanmar Shan: Relative Stability Brings Progress to Myanmar Region
Loud explosions and billowing smoke filled the air above the national stadium in the highly militarized capital of Panghsang in Myanmar's Shan state — but it wasn't what one might expect in a region ...
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar: Humanitarian access in Kachin and northern Shan (March 2019)
In Kachin and northern Shan almost 47,000 people have been temporarily displaced by fighting in 21 Townships since January 2018, triple the number of people during 2017. Civilians have been ...
News Myanmar Shan: Myo Min Tun reveals why he resigned as the head coach of Myanmar champions Yangon United
Min Tun’s resignation came a day before Yangon were to face Cambodian outfit Nagaworld FC in the AFC Cup 2019 and when the team was sitting third in the Myanmar National League table — just one point ...
