Junta PM visits Shan State
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 sources close to...
War looms as junta sets latest deadline
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 the latter’s Border Guard Fo...
Number of Shan ceasefire delegates shrinks
Latest report say that only one of the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ top leaders was present at the 28 February meeting between the junta authorities and the group over the jun...
Few signs of looming war in Mongla, say tourists
Troops from both the Burma Army and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) have withdrawn, making the road from Thailand’s Maesai to the Shan State East’s Chinese border town...
Thousands of acres confiscated for Mongnai-Kengtung railroad
Local villagers reported that over a thousand acres of public land and farms were forcibly taken away by junta authorities for the construction of a rail-road project between the e...
Mongla calls for acceptance of 6 point proposal
In a written response by Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) to Naypyitaw on Sunday, the group repeated that it would choose to retain its ceasefire status until ...
THE ORION STARS
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...
Weekly Diary, No.391 (28 February - 8 March 2010)
- WAR LOOMS IN BURMA!
- BURMA WISHES TO EMULATE N. KOREA!
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US-BANGLADESH WAR GAME IN THE BAY!
- BURMESE MIGRANTS IN THAILAND WAIT IN SUSPENSE!
- BURMA STILL HAVEN FOR MONEY LAUNDRY!
A record - 2 March 1962
It is claimed that the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army, General Ne Win, launched a ‘bloodless’ coup when he seized power on 2 March 1962.
Message on The 59th Anniversary of Shan National Day
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.
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- Number of Shan ceasefire delegates shrinks
- Few signs of looming war in Mongla, say tourists
- Thousands of acres confiscated for Mongnai-Kengtung railroad
- Mongla calls for acceptance of 6 point proposal
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