The trio – DVB’s Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung, and The Irrawaddy’s Lawi Weng – were arrested at a checkpoint while returning from TNLA territory.
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Journalists walk free from Hsipaw court
“The case has finally come to an end. This is such an auspicious day.”
3,000 IDPs sheltering in Hsipaw, Namtu
Relief workers say that these internally displaced persons are urgently in need of blankets and warm clothing as the cold season sets in.
300 Hsipaw IDPs returning home
“The IDPs are being repatriated as calm gradually returns to the area,” a Shan MP tells DVB.
The Daily Briefing: Monday, June 13, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Talking points galore at Shangri-La Dialogue. This weekend, US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet met the UN envoy for Burma and various other ASEAN leaders in Singapore at the annual IISS Asia Security Summit (Shangri-La Dialogue), raising numerous discussion points on the crisis in Burma. Thailand’s special envoy to Burma, Bornpimol …
Military using slave labor to fortify crony coal project in Shan
Approximately 100 civilians have been used as military porters to aid in the construction of a new military outpost in Naung Hee villact tract in Namsan township, the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) said on April 19. Residents of Nam Mot village say they were ordered to send one person per household to partake in …