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• Thai firm wants road through rebel territory

  Created: Saturday, 27 December 2008 00:00 Author: S.H.A.N.

  Saraburi Coal Mining, a Thai firm that has recently been granted a concession by Naypyitaw to extract coal from Mongkok, 70km north of Chiangrai border, is applying for permission to build a road through the area operated by the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State ...

• Shan history by Shan scholar

  Created: Friday, 26 December 2008 00:00 Author: S.H.A.N.

  History of the Shan State: From its origin to1962 by the Shans’ foremost scholar today Sai Aung Tun, after a 3-year wait, is recently placed on the bookshelves in Chiangmai’s Suriwong Book Center....

• Tsunami impact in Shan State remembered

  Created: Friday, 26 December 2008 00:00 Author: Hseng Khio Fah

  As hundreds of thousands of people in Thailand and other countries suffered by the giant waves of tsunami on 26 December 2004, many places in southern Shan State were also destroyed by the 6.4 on Richter scale earthquakes that followed its devastating for...

• Wa offers assistance in fake note scandal

  Created: Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:39 Author: S.H.A.N.

  A senior Wa official has promised full cooperation in the crackdown on Thai banknote forgers that reportedly originate from their own ranks....

• Junta-backed party hopes to win 2010 elections

  Created: Thursday, 25 December 2008 00:00 Author: Hseng Khio Fah

  Junta-backed National Unity Party (NUP) is confident it will win the upcoming 2010 elections, according to a reliable source from Mon State....

• New form to hire migrant workers issued

  Created: Wednesday, 24 December 2008 17:09 Author: Hseng Khio Fah

  After a week of the cabinet meeting, Thai authorities have issued the application form for hiring Burmese migrant workers in order to enable them to receive work-permit papers from the Burmese authorities, according to a document received by Chiangmai bas...

• Shan State Congress formed

  Created: Wednesday, 24 December 2008 17:04 Author: S.H.A.N.

  Loi Taileng-A new venue to air issues facing Shan State, the biggest ethnic state in the Union of Burma, and its people, provisionally named Shan State Congress, was chosen after a lively three-day debate yesterday....

• Inaugural Sao Thusandi Award Given in Chiang Mai

  Created: Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:57 Author: Sai Awn Murng

  The Sao Thusandi Leadership Award ceremony was held recently in Chiang Mai to recognize the achievements of its first recipient, Sai Phu Murng.  The award was established by the humanitarian organization Burma Lifeline....