Since ethnic ceasefire groups had rejected the Napyitaw’s latest deadline, the junta military has contined deploying more forces, food supplies and weapons to the ceasefire areas in Shan State North, especial...
A day after the Burmese military regime announced its election law on 8 March, Prime Minister Thein Sein was reported to have taken some ethnic officials from the army with him on a journey to ethnic areas in S...
10 March went by without reports of either side, the Burma Army or the anti-Border Guard Force ceasefire armies, resuming peaceful overtures to each other, according to sources fro...
A Thai language radio, on Tuesday, 9 March, reported many Shan monks were believed to be participating in the planned anti-government rallies in Bangkok, but monks from living both...
Today, Prime Minister Thein Sein is visiting Shan State North’s towns Muse and Namkham on the Sino-Burma border reportedly in connection with the upcoming 2010 general elections,...
According to Chinese officials brokering between the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the Burma Army, the latter has set 15 March as the date for the former to give its response to ...
Introduction
The West has St. Valentine and Romeo and Juliet. The Shans, a sub-family of the Tai race, one of the major inhabitants of Southeast Asia, spanning from Yunnan to Assam and from Kachin State of Burma to Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, have Khu...
Is there anyone who wants to know how the first Shan flag was made? Read the following story – Editor
It is interesting to note that the linkage and emergence of the modern Shan State, its national day and the formation of the Union of Burma are so intertwined; it is almost impossible to discuss the making of this historical formation separately.