Myanmar ethnic minority fighters seize town from military
By AFP and published by CNA ETHNIC minority fighters battling Myanmar’s junta said on Saturday (Dec. 16) they seized a trading hub in Shan state, days after China said it had mediated a temporary ceasefire. Clashes have raged across Myanmar’s northern Shan state since the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army […]
Read MoreMyanmar helping 2 injured Thai women return home
MYANMAR authorities are transferring two Thai women who got seriously injured after jumping from a building at battle-hit Laukkaing city in northern Shan State by ambulance to Mae Sai border town tomorrow morning (Nov. 27), Matichon newspaper said this afternoon. Col. Natee Thimsen, commander of Chao Tak Army Special Forces and Thai head of […]
Read MoreStrong 6.4 earthquake in Myanmar’s Shan state felt in Thailand
THE STRONGEST earthquake in several years reaching 6.4 magnitude shook the whole of Myanmar’s Shan state at 8.37 a.m. Thai time this morning (Nov. 17) with tremors being felt in many northern Thai provinces, Naewna newspaper said. The Thai Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Observation Division said the centre of the quake, with a depth of […]
Read More84 Thai women now entrapped in Shan State
By Thai Newsroom Reporters EIGHTY-FOUR THAI WOMEN are currently entrapped in Myanmar’s Shan State where they had been earlier tempted by call-centre scams and flesh trade rackets, according to Paveena Hongsakul Foundation. The 84 Thai women reportedly detained by Myanmar authorities in Shan State include 62 females who had been lured into call-centre scams […]
Read More6 Shans dead as torrential rain at border triggers fierce forest runoff
SIX Shan people died and two are missing after torrential rain at the Thai-Myanmar border triggered a heavy forest runoff that damaged homes and roads at Doi Tai Lang stronghold of Shan State Army (SSA) chief Gen. Chao Yawd Serk, Naewna newspaper said today (July 10). This Shan stronghold is opposite Thailand’s Mae Hong […]
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