Shan State – Asia Times

Blind eyes and payoffs fuel Asia’s drug boom

by Anthony Davis November 20, 2020November 24, 2020

BANGKOK – As drug take-downs go, it was a long way from the “kick in the door and round ‘em up” operations celebrated in the movies. Beginning in February this year and finishing only in early April, it lasted a full 40 days, covered over a hundred square kilometers, and required several battalions of troops […]

Why Asia is losing its war on drugs

by Anthony Davis November 19, 2020November 23, 2020

Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel in Inn Din village September 1, 2017. Handout via REUTERS

AT Finance, Myanmar

Action to end Myanmar war crimes urged

by Khin Ohmar September 19, 2019February 18, 2020

Children walking through an opium plantation in Pekon in southern Shan state.Photo: Hyo Hein Hein Kyaw/ AFP

AT Finance, Myanmar

UN report on Myanmar opium crop criticized

by Bertil Lintner March 6, 2019February 18, 2020

A Myanmar woman with children displaced from the recent fighting between government troops and the ethnic Arakan Army take shelter at a displacement camp housing more than 700 people in Kyauktaw township in Rakhine State on December 23, 2018. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Arakan Army clashes with government forces in Rakhine state

by Bertil Lintner January 3, 2019February 18, 2020

File pic of Mahabandoola Road in Yangon. A major high-rise project has been shut down by the military after contract breaches and public concern about the impact of buildings on a nearby reservoir. Photo: Ben Pipe/ Robert Harding via AFP

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

Big high-rise project in Yangon shut down for ‘deal breaches’

by Bertil Lintner October 5, 2018February 18, 2020

Soldiers thought to be from the United Wa State Army take down a cross from a building in the Wa region in northern Shan State. The soldier below uses a sledgehammer to demolish the top of the building, believed to be an unauthorized church. Photo: Screen grab from video.

AT Finance, Beijing, China, India, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia

Video ‘shows soldiers knocking down church in Wa state’

by Bertil Lintner September 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Army chief Snr General Min Aung Hlaing has told media groups they could face legal action over unverified reports about the military. Photo: AFP / Thet Aung

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Harsh light shines on Myanmar’s military abuses

by David Scott Mathieson September 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Busy morning on the Salween on Thailand-Myanmar border as women sell their products from riverbank gardens. Photo: International Rivers

AT Finance, China, Middle East, Myanmar, Thailand, World

Women must be central to decisions on hydropower in Myanmar

by Pianporn Deetes March 8, 2018

News that the Myanmar govt is set to build a series of gas power plants has pleased activists hoping to stop dams being built on the Salween river. Photo: Actions for Shan State Rivers

AT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Greater Bay Area, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Myanmar power plans could spare the Salween

by Jim Pollard February 11, 2018February 18, 2020

A Shan State Army-South soldier stands guard outside the insurgent group's headquarters ahead of the Shan National Day in Loi Tai Leng, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. Photo: AFP/KC Ortiz

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar, South Asia

Myanmar’s cockpit of anarchy

by Anthony Davis December 31, 2017February 18, 2020

A man holds an improvised explosive device in Myanmar. These devices are found in multiple areas in many states in the north, east and west where there has been fighting. Photo: via ICBL/ Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Middle East, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, World

Myanmar still a serial landmine user, monitor says

by Jim Pollard December 15, 2017February 18, 2020

Displaced Shan at the Thai-Myanmar border call for the Myanmar military to stop fighting against ethnic groups. Photo: Charm Tong/ Shan Human Rights Group.

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, World

Refugees doubt Myanmar offer to aid displaced Shan on border

by Jim Pollard October 29, 2017February 18, 2020

The Golden Triangle is an area of about 950,000 square kilometers that overlaps the mountains of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Large quantities of methamphetamine are produced here along with opium grown in poor parts of Shan State, which is turned into heroin and smuggled to countries throughout the region. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, World

Target Golden Triangle drug lords, not users, UN urges

by Asia Times and Jim Pollard October 12, 2017February 18, 2020

Myanmar security officials stand guard in a pool of mud on July 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Simon Lewis

AT Finance, Middle East, Myanmar, Thailand

Self-defeating approach to peace in Myanmar

by David Scott Mathieson July 28, 2017February 18, 2020

De facto Myanmar ruler Aung San Suu Kai's indifference to press freedom has attracted intense criticism. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

AT Finance, European Union, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, World

Why Suu Kyi should reach out to Myanmar’s media

by Tej Parikh July 15, 2017July 15, 2017

A Rohingya refugee girl carries a child at the Kutupalang makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on July 8, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Thailand, World

Suu Kyi must stop defending Myanmar military’s crimes

by Kyaw Win July 13, 2017

Children walking through an opium plantation in Shan State, Myanmar. The country has struggled to stem the tide of narcotics from its remote and violence-scarred border regions. Photo: AFP/Phyo Hein Kyaw

Afghanistan, AT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Taiwan, Thailand

Myanmar’s vicious circle inside the golden triangle

by Carole Oudot and Matthieu Baudey December 29, 2016February 18, 2020

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