At the end of November 2015, I was smuggled through Myanmar army checkpoints beneath a tarp in the back of a car to the Shan State Army-North headquarters in Wan Hai, Shan State, in northern Myanmar.

(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 ...

WITH its hill-tribe villages and opium warlords, the Shan state of northern Myanmar is among the least developed regions of Asia. But as you approach the Chinese border, the landscape is suddenly ...

Myanmar's Shan people and their homeland, Shan State, have been under de facto occupation by the Burmese-dominated military since a 1962 coup.

MRS. MILNE'S account of the social life and customs of the Palaungs, a people living in a northern Shan State, but quite distinct from the Shans and belonging to the Mon Kmer group, is the outcome ...