northern Shan state – Charm

Myanmar junta forces retake key town on trade route to China

Cs news1 day ago02 mins

Myanmar’s ruling junta said on Saturday that it had recaptured a town on a trade highway to China from an ethnic armed group in the country’s war-wracked north. Following a 16-day operation, “Tatmadaw reoccupied Hsipaw completely” on Thursday, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said, referring to the military by its Burmese name….

China has brokered another ceasefire in Myanmar civil war. But will it hold?

Cs news9 months ago02 mins

The latest China-brokered truce in Myanmar’s civil war is likely to hold for now but lasting peace may still be a pipe dream, according to observers. Myanmar’s military government and a major northeastern ethnic rebel group agreed to a ceasefire this month in the Chinese border city of Kunming – the second such pact to…