Shan State

New Books on SE Asia: Jane Ferguson’s “Repossessing Shanland…”

Literati and politicians have constructed a virtual Shan state that lives on in popular media, rock music, and Buddhist ritual.

New Mandala 18 March, 2022

A View from the Borderlands: An Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Tar Parn La

On the current political landscape in Myanmar.

U Kyaw Zizawa 14 July, 2021

Lost in tongue: the politics of mother tongue education in Myanmar

A glimpse into the current state of mother tongue education and its connections to the broader ethnic reconciliation process.

Andre Kwok 13 December, 2019

Boom times and boom gates

Olivia Cable reports on human trafficking on the China-Myanmar border.

James Giggacher 17 April, 2014

Kuomintang in northern Thailand

Nicholas Farrelly 04 June, 2012

Shan warlord captured?

Andrew Walker 27 April, 2012

Internationalising the Kachin war

Nicholas Farrelly 12 April, 2012

3,000 dead Burmese soldiers?

Nicholas Farrelly 11 April, 2012

Smoke across mainland Southeast Asia

Nicholas Farrelly 17 January, 2012

Burma’s independence and the year ahead

Nicholas Farrelly 04 January, 2012

Interactive map of Burma

Nicholas Farrelly 12 October, 2011

On Burmese Army combat losses

Bo Hmu Gyi 07 October, 2011

New Light on Kachin war, again

Nicholas Farrelly 30 September, 2011

War in Kachin State

Nicholas Farrelly 15 June, 2011

Coverage of earthquake in Shan State

Book Zone, Guest Contributor 14 April, 2011

Shan National Day celebrated with pomp, circumstance and a healthy dose of Shan Rock and Roll

Jane M. Ferguson, Guest Contributor 17 February, 2011

Brother against brother, friend against friend

Nicholas Farrelly 01 November, 2010

The scourge of Burma, Part 2

Hla Oo, Guest Contributor 05 March, 2010

China and the Wa

Anonymous 06 January, 2010

Burmese army radios

Nicholas Farrelly 05 January, 2010

Vietnam vets (PLA) to fight in Burma?

Nicholas Farrelly 16 December, 2009

Prospects for ceasefire “engagement”?

Nicholas Farrelly 24 November, 2009

Mathieson on Burma’s borderlands

Nicholas Farrelly 08 October, 2009

A Sino-Burmese border dance

Nicholas Farrelly 08 September, 2009