News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar junta’s steel industry aided by secretive Italian firm Danieli
Existing EU sanctions fail to deter Myanmar’s military regime from seeking assistance from global steelmaker Danieli, a company accused by Ukraine of violating similar restrictions in Russia ...
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar: Shan Villagers and the Salween Dam Fight
The increasing army presence to defend the construction of a controversial Salween river dam in southeastern Myanmar’s Shan state has sparked heightened concerns among rural villagers ...
News Myanmar Shan: US places sanctions on Myanmar's defence ministry, banks
BANGKOK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Myanmar's defense ministry and two banks used by the ruling military junta to buy arms and other goods from foreign sources. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement the military has relied on foreign sources, including Russian entities under sanctions, to purchase and import arms, equipment and raw
News Myanmar Shan: ‘I just want my legs back’: Myanmar landmine casualties soar
BANGKOK--The 3-year-old boy had taken only two steps from his mother’s lap when a deafening explosion rang out. The blast caught the woman in the face, blurring her vision. She forced her eyes open and searched for her son around the busy jetty where they’d been waiting for a ferry, near their small village in south-central Myanmar.
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Aided by Ethnic Kokang Armed Group
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in northern Shan State has forged links with the resistance and other EAOs opposed to the regime.
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar military has caused 'perpetual human rights crisis', UN report says
A report published by the United Nations on Friday accused Myanmar's military of creating "a perpetual human rights crisis" in the southeast Asian country and called for an immediate end to violence there.
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar, Bangladesh “Potato Diplomacy”
At the time of the arrival of Shan potatoes ... metric tons of Lalita potatoes were exported to Myanmar through Teknaf land port in the last financial year 2021-22, the export value of which ...
News Myanmar Shan: Seized - 48kg of heroin in eastern Myanmar
in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Wednesday (March 1). Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a ...
News Myanmar Shan: Assessing Possible Military Developments in Myanmar This Year
Security analyst Anthony Davis looks at the strengths, weaknesses and strategies of the junta and the federal-democratic resistance.
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar’s Military Government Announces Release of Thousands of Prisoners, Including an American and 3 Other Foreigners
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American on Thursday as part of a broad prisoner amnesty ...
News Myanmar Shan: UN expert questions sincerity of Myanmar's prisoner release
A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an attempt by its military government to âcreate a veneer of progressâ in the country to sway international opinion
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar releases thousands of political prisoners in grand pardon
The military government of Myanmar announced that it will release 5,774 prisoners, four of them from other countries. The release marks a step toward justice, but there are still thousands of people imprisoned in Myanmar on political charges.
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar detention was 'hell', says freed Japanese filmmaker
By John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese filmmaker jailed for nearly four months in Myanmar described some of his detention there as "hell" and called on Tokyo to take a tougher stance against human rights abuses in the military-controlled country. The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the military overthrew an elected government last year. The junta has arrested thousands
News Myanmar Shan: Do more to cut Myanmar military's revenue, arms supply: UN to countries
Bangladesh, Sept. 17 -- Countries will have to do more to cut the Myanmar military's access to revenue and arms supplies to halt its repression of the people, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a report Friday.The report was requested by the Human Rights Council to follow up on earlier recommendations made by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) on the economic interests of the Myanmar military (the...
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar court sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 3 years on charges of election fraud
A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years' imprisonment with labour after finding her guilty of election fraud, adding more jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for other offences prosecuted by the military government.
News Myanmar Shan: UN urges countries to do more to cut Myanmar military’s revenue, arms supply
The UN Human Rights Office has called out to countries to do more to cut the Myanmar military’s access to revenue and arms supply to halt its repression of the people.
News Myanmar Shan: Can China Untangle the Kokang Knot in Myanmar?
While most fled to relatively safe places in Shan State, or other neighboring ... technological and financial support to Myanmar to defeat Peng. Plus, China should strengthen control over exported ...
News Myanmar Shan: Myanmar: a coup, a civil war, a crisis and China
Myanmar’s reforms to the foreign-exchange system, liberalisation of markets, integration into the regional economy, and the modernisation of economic and financial institutions had all ...
