Shan
The Shan are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia belonging to the Tai-Kadai language family. "Shan" is probably a Chinese designation for this ethnic Tai group. They call themselves T...
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Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.Under a panda loan agreement with ...
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BANGKOK, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Notorious Golden Triangle drug
lord and one-time Shan guerrilla leader Khun Sa has died in
Myanmar's main city after a long illness, a top rebel leader
and a former ass...
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Khun Sa, a drug lord once described by the U.S. government as the world's largest producer of heroin, has died, an associate and a Myanmar official said Tuesday. He was 74.Khuensai Jaiyen, a former...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Chang Shi-fu, better known as Khun Sa, died in his
Yangon home after suffering from various diseases including high
blood pressure and diabete...
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BEIJING, Nov 13 (Reuters) - China's multi-billion-dollar
building boom ahead of the Beijing Olympics has unearthed
hundreds of ancient relics -- some 2,000 years old -- leaving
archaeologists to p...
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Myanmar, marking the U.N. International Day Against Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking on Tuesday, burned drugs, said to be worth as
much as $272 million, seized from traffickers by law enfor...
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Myanmar confirmed its first human bird flu case, the World Health Organization said Friday.A 7-year-old girl from Shan state in the east of the country fell ill with fever and headache in November,...
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Shan
China extends panda cub's stay in D.C.
