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The Irrawaddy10d
Has the Revolutionary Spirit Gone? Shan Armed Forces in Crisis as Public Doubts Grow
On May 21, 1958, 31 young Shan rebels launched an armed struggle under the rallying cry: “Shan people, Shan State, fight ...
The Star8mon
Flooding hits eastern Myanmar's Shan state after river overflows
YANGON: (Bernama-Xinhua) A severe flooding hit Tachileik town in Shan state as the Mae Sai Creek ... Rescue operations carried out by the Myanmar Fire Services Department, and other organisations ...
The New York Times5mon
Drugs, Scams and Sin: Myanmar’s War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital
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 ...
The Irish Times5mon
Drugs, scams and sin: Myanmar’s war has made it the global crime capital
The beauty in this corner of Shan state, in northeastern Myanmar, might seem a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these ...