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Myanmar exports to China increasingly difficult due to conflict
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Since the start of a major anti-junta offensive late last month in Myanmar, border crossings in northern Shan State to China, including Muse and Chin She Haw, have been closed.
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Peace talks in Myanmar highlight China's influence
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The talks were held over two days in the Mongla region in northern Myanmar's Shan state, near the Chinese border. According to local reports, the meetings were attended by Guo Bao, China's special envoy from the neighbouring Chinese province Yunnan's Foreign Affairs Department, VOA reported.
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Myanmar's military junta kills 29 at a monastery in southern Shan State
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Photographs posted online on Sunday showed several blood-soaked bodies near the entrance to the village monastery, including three belonging to Buddhist monks. The front of the monastery was also heavily pockmarked with bullet holes.
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Myanmar's military holds talks with ethnic armed groups on staging electio
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Myanmar's military administration conducted discussions with three ethnic armed groups about holding polls in regions under rebel control, Al Jazeera quoted a spokesman for one of the groups as saying on Saturday.
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Amid border disputes, China cuts off electricity to Myanmar's village
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 8 (ANI): Owing to border demarcation disputes between Beijing and Naypyidaw, China has cut off electricity in the northern Shan State of Myanmar for nearly nine months, media reported quoting residents.
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China's attempt to erect fences near Shan state irks Myanmar
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], November 27 (ANI): The border tensions between Myanmar and China have renewed after Chinese officials constructed fences near the border of the two countries in Laukkai Township in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) in northern Shan state.
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80 Myanmar nationals flee to China amid military conflicts in Shan
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Nov. 21 (ANI): Around 80 nationals have fled to China as armed conflicts erupted in northern Myanmar's Shan state.
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Ethnic armed groups launch attack on military outposts in northern Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Nov. 21 (ANI): Military conflicts broke out in the border area of northern Myanmar's Shan state yesterday morning after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched simultaneous offensives on military outposts and police stations in Muse and Kutkai townships as well
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Myanmar military admits killing five civilians in Shan State, promises act
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, July 21 (ANI): In an unprecedented admission, the Myanmar Military or the Tatmadaw, has accepted that its soldiers killed five civilians in Shan State's Lashio township and added that it will take action against the perpetrators responsible for the crime.
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Myanmar's Shan State parliament urges government to intervene in conf
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, July 18 (ANI): The Shan State parliament has approved an urgent proposal requesting government intervention to bring an end to a simmering conflict between the Myanmar National Army (Tatmadaw) and ethnic armed groups, which has displaced thousands of civilians in the northern regi
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Villagers flee after landmine blast, hostilities continue in Myanmar'
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, July 11 (ANI): A recent landmine blast that killed a person and increased activity by hostile ethnic armed groups in the Mine Ton township of Myanmar's Shan State has led more than 320 villagers living in the Mong Maw village tract seeking refuge in Shwe Myin Thar monastery.
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Hydropower dams, major development projects halted in Shan State till reas
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, July 8 (ANI): The Naungpha hydropower dam along with several other major projects in Shan State have been suspended until cost-benefit field analyses, environmental analyses and social impact assessments are performed, said State Minister for Finance and Planning, U Soe Nyunt Lwin
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