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The two remaining legal ethnic parties, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) and the Shan State Kokang Democratic Party, did not participate.

Professor of Economics, University of Ibadan. PU, Shan (China).

U Shwe Ohn (82), a Shan leader, remains under house arrest since being detained following a meeting of Shan politicians on 7 February 2005.

He is similarly concerned at the fact that several Shan leaders, including the President of the Shan State Peace Council and the Chairman of the Shan NLD, were arrested or detained in early 2005, leading to the boycotting of the opening ceremony of the National Convention by the Shan State Army (North) on 17 February 2005.

Others who are particularly affected are the Shan in the south eastern part of Shan state and the Mon in southern Ye township in Mon state.

Shan Ding Lu has compiled a photo essay about rubbish in Taiwan.

Includes figures for Chang'an Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.

Prior to the National Convention, at least 10 political activists were arrested for participating in a meeting of senior representatives of the Shan ethnic nationality on Shan National Day, 7 February 2005.

The same was true of the Shan people, whose members lived not only in the state of Shan the largest in Myanmar, which also had multi ethnic representation but also in the country's other states and territories.

Following the renunciation by the Shan State National Army of its ceasefire agreement in April 2005, there has been increased military activity and increased deployment of Government forces to restrict contact with the Shan State Army (South).

This image, posted in the online magazine Shan Herald, describes the state of the press in Myanmar.

Shan Herald explains the link between the war on drugs and the raging civil war in north Myanmar

The state gets its name from the Shan people, one of several ethnic groups that inhabit the area.

A severe magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck in Tarlay, Tachileik Township, the eastern part of Shan State, on 24 March 2011.

It is the second highest in Hong Kong, after Tai Mo Shan, and is almost twice the height of Victoria Peak.

They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth shan.

Civilians in ethnic minority areas such as Shan, Kayin, Kayah and Mon states have allegedly been particularly vulnerable to such violations.

quot 18. Forced portering has been reported especially in the areas of conflict in the Karen, Karenni, Shan and Mon regions.

His Shan policy was followed by Burmese kings right up to the final fall of the kingdom to the British in 1885.

(h) To release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, including National League for Democracy leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo, and Shan Nationalities League for Democracy leader Khun Htun Oo and other Shan leaders, and to allow their full participation in a genuinely inclusive process of national reconciliation

Indeed, Burma s recent history has been plagued by ethnic violence and protracted conflicts with government forces, particularly in Karen, Shan, and Kachin states.

His Shan policy was followed by all Burmese kings right up to the final fall of the kingdom to the British in 1885.

Khuensai Jaiyen of the Shan Drug Watch believes that a political solution with armed ethnic groups is the key to addressing the drug menace

On 7 February 2005, at least 10 political activists were arrested for participating in a meeting of senior representatives of the Shan ethnic nationality.

As a result, it is understood that over 10,000 civilians have been displaced by conflict in southern Shan state between March and June 2005.

The credibility of the Convention has never been questioned by any quarter within the nation except by NLD and its affiliate, the Shan NLD.

A 15 year old boy named Zhang Chaofan from Yun Cheng county of Shan Xi province in China was beaten to death on 23 April.

Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west.

On 8 April 2005, a Member of Parliament elect of Shan State, U Kyaw Khin, was sentenced, for the second time, to 14 years' imprisonment.

Only 44 delegates declined the invitation to participate 33 from NLD, 8 from its affiliate the Shan NLD and 3 from a minor Kokang group.

From Pakistani held Kashmir to Burma s troubled Kachin and Shan states, China has widened its dam building to disputed or insurgency torn areas, despite local backlashes.

Its early kings Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung succeeded in reunifying the Pagan Empire for the first time since 1287, and in incorporating the Shan States for the first time.

Anawrahta unified the entire Irrawaddy valley for the first time in history, and placed peripheral regions such as the Shan States and Arakan (Northern Rakhine) under Pagan's suzerainty.

The report stressed the importance of inclusiveness and regretted that the National Convention does not include representatives from the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy.

The report mentioned that the Shan State National Army (SSNA) has withdrawn from the ceasefire agreement. On the contrary, all (5) component brigades of the SSNA remain within the legal fold.

(c) To facilitate and cooperate fully with an independent international investigation of charges of rape and other abuse of civilians carried out by members of the armed forces in Shan and other states

Known as the Godfather of the Golden Triangle , Naw Kham led the 100 strong Hawngleuk Militia in the Shan State border town of Tachilek in Myanmar which engaged in drug trafficking, kidnapping and hijacking.

All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

In August, United States Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Chairman of the House Narcotics Abuse and Control Committee, and Congressman Bill Richardson visited eastern Shan State to acquire first hand knowledge of the illicit drug problem.

all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

It has been reported that as of the end of 2004, there were at least 526,000 internally displaced persons in eastern Myanmar alone, in Mon, Kayin, Kayah, southern Shan states and Tanintharyi and eastern Bago divisions.

For example, in Tacheilek, Shan State, it has been alleged that senior members of the Myanmar Army confiscated paddy fields, divided them into blocks and sold them back to farmers or to officers under their command.

On 31 October 2003, the RTL Commission of the Pingding Shan Municipal People's Government assigned Zhang to two years' re education through labour under article 10, paragraph 1, of the Experimental Methods of Re education Through Labour