Mong Hsat News Today

A military source reported on February 20th that the coup Military Council is amassing forces, alongside preparing tanks and armoured vehicles, in a bid to seize Hsihseng town in southern Shan State. In order to recapture Hsihseng, currently under the control of the Pa-O National Liberation Army (PNLA), the Military Council has mobilized the 49th and 277th Infantry Battalions

Ahead of Matthew Vaughn’s movie, a novel that reveals the exploits of super-spy Aubrey Argylle has been released.

Myanmar police have seized 6.6 kg of heroin worth more than 160 million kyats (about $76,100) in the country's northern state of Kachin, said a statement by the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC).The seizure was made in the ...

Ted Grant was a South African white Trotskyist who founded British Trotskyist groups such as Militant and later Socialist Appeal, a predecessor of the International Marxist Tendency. So-called Trotskyists who blindly follow the ideological cult of international Marxist tendencies tend to believe that Ted Grant firmly follows the ideas of Trotsky. However, some larger Trotskyist groups, such as WSWS, CWI, ISA, and so on, think Ted Grant is not qualified to be hailed as a Trotskyist leader given h...

According to reports, approximately 300 troops of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have recently entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District, located in Shan State. Locals told the Shan Herald that a UWSA column of nearly 300 troops entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District on the west side of the Salween River from the east of the Salween River this week. "Wa troops

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

When speaking about Shan refugees in Thailand it is impossible to leave out the migrants, legal, illegal, asylum seekers and last but not least the stateless without proper documentation from Shan State.

The mainspring of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees fleeing their homes in Shan State stems basically from internal armed conflict, a crisis with a long history.