Shan State
(1990 est. pop. 4.25 million). The Shan State in northeastern Burma is the country's largest ethnic minority state. A highland plateau covering 156,000 square kilometers, it is home ...
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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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Bangkok (dpa) - Instability, poor law enforcement and corruption
have paved the way for a 29-per-cent jump in opium poppy cultivation
in Myanmar this year, United Nations ex...
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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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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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Yangon (dpa) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
will close two field offices in Myanmar this week, after failing to
reach an understanding with the ruling...
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Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar on Tuesday burned 40.5 million
methamphetamine tablets, 334.6 kilograms of opium and 67.5 kilograms
of heroin to mark International Day Against Drug A...
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Yangon (dpa) Myanmar on Tuesday burned 40.5 million
methamphetamine tablets, 334.6 kilograms of opium and 67.5 kilograms
of heroin to mark International Day Against Drug Abu...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Myanmar's major insurgent and dissident groups
are planning to meet this Sunday to discuss a means of supporting the
monk-led rebellion in Yangon.
...
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Myanmar's junta has detained five generals and more than 400
soldiers for disobeying orders to shoot and beat monks and other
activists during recent pro-democracy protests in Yangon, an
Ind...
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Shan State
Myanmar burns illicit drugs
