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 ...

YANGON: The Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has provided over three million kyats (US$0.0014 million) worth of food and drinks to the refugees who have arrived in Yaksawk ...

The Shan State Army-North sent more than 1,000 troops on Friday and Saturday into the nearby township of Mongyai, where the MNDAA has been fighting the Myanmar military, The Shan consider Mongyai ...

In the Shan Hills of Myanmar, ... Or he made his profile photo that of a longhaired Asian woman and, in deliberately broken French, wooed older men eager for love.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) claims it has taken control of the regional military command centre in Lashio, Shan State. It is the first time the ruling military junta has ...

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 ...

Bangkok — In the shadow of Myanmar's brutal and bloody civil war, a rebel army with close ties to China and the illicit drug trade is spreading out and bulking up without a fight.

YANGON: An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups said Sunday (July 14) it had agreed a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state following clashes in which its fighters ...

Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales ...