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Local women harvest poppies under the midday sun in southern Shan State, one of Myanmar’s main opium-producing regions [Fabio Polese/Al Jazeera] Despite the high-profile arrest of Tse Chi Lop ...
YANGON: The Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army ... 120 bottles of cooking oil and two large bags of salt for 104 men and 168 women, totaling 272 people, who were local residents fleeing ...
An opium poppy farm in Pekon Township in Shan State, Myanmar, in November.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times Supported by By Hannah Beech Reporting from Shan and Karen states in Myanmar ...
Photo shows Rohingya refugee women queue for food aid ... Lashio is the largest city in Shan State and is a commercial gateway between Myanmar's second-largest city Mandalay and Muse on ...
An upsurge in violence in Myanmar's northern Shan state over the last 10 days has resulted in human casualties and displacements, sources have said. On July 1, rebels attacked four military battalions ...
The BBC has been sent several images of damaged buildings in Naung Lin Village, Shan state, where Myanmar's junta fighters ... Applause as rescuers pull woman alive from rubble A BBC investigation ...
BANGKOK — Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority ...
The sun is high and the air is still in the poppy fields blanketing the hills in this part of southern Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Men and women, young and old, their faces shielded with ...