The United States’ embassy in Myanmar’s largest city expressed deep concern Saturday over recent heavy fighting involving the military and two ethnic armed groups in eastern Shan state. A series of ...

As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

Pneg Deren was detained after he travelled to Yunnan for talks with Chinese officials, local media report. Despite pressure from Beijing, his armed group, the MNDAA, maintains control of Lashio, a ...

Lu Awng heard gunfire from an internal displaced camp when the Ta'ang National Liberation Army ambushed a military convoy in Mantong, northern Shan State on Aug.5. It was just another incident that ...

The Three Brotherhood Alliance has launched coordinated attacks aimed at dislodging the junta and its allies from strategically important regions of Shan State bordering China. On Friday morning, an ...

Rohingya Muslim people, fled from ongoing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, arrive to enter no man's land and try to enter a makeshift shelter camp in Shahpori Island, Bangladesh on August 31, 2017 ...

In the State, drug trafficking and ethnic conflict have been linked since the 1950s. Separatist groups and para-military militias depend on the proceeds of the illicit drug trade. In order to protect ...

Film director Nontawat Numbenchapol is recognised for his documentaries about minority groups including By The River (2013), Boundary (2013) and Soil Without Land (2019). Soil Without Land, which ...

Nang Khin Shwe dreams of becoming a nurse one day. A couple of years ago, she took part in an auxiliary midwife training in her northern Shan State village to move one step closer to that dream. "I ...

SHAN STATE, Myanmar - Sai, 28, rarely leaves home without two ballpoint pens tucked inside his denim jacket, although he never uses them for writing. The pens are packed with 0.4cm-wide pills of ...