With Nawnghkio fully under their control, junta forces are now menacing other towns held by anti-junta groups like Kyaukme ...

The key northern Shan town, once a launchpad for ethnic alliance forces, is back under regime control – but most of the ...

The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins ...

Muse hosts the 105-Mile Trade Zone and has the greatest volume of trade with China. It is the fourth border crossing seized by the alliance forces in a month of intense fighting.

Up to 25,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to the recent upsurge of fighting in the northern part of Myanmar’s Shan State, ... border crossings with Chinshwehaw and Muse. ...

Muse hosts the 105-mile trade zone and has the greatest volume of trade with China. It is the fourth border crossing seized by the alliance forces in a month of intense fighting.

The Yanlonkyaing China-Myanmar Border Gate to the northeast of Laukkai, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone in Shan State, Myanmar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Paingpeace An armed ...

Ten armed groups run the Shan State border town of Muse, which is separated by a shallow river from the gleaming towers of its Chinese counterpart, Ruili. All are under the tutelage of the same ...

(Bangkok) – An ethnic armed group in northern Myanmar has abducted and forcibly recruited civilians fleeing fighting in Shan State, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar’s military also has a ...

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.