(Reuters) - Myanmar's Shan people and their homeland, Shan State, have been under de facto occupation by the Burmese-dominated military since a 1962 coup. - The Shan are the second-largest ethnic ...
PIANG PHRA CAMP, THAI-MYANMAR BORDER (dpa) – Nan Thaw fled to this border enclave last month with his wife and two small children to escape the Wa, a people in search of a new homeland. “They took our ...
Thousands of ethnic minority refugees from Myanmar’s Shan State who have been languishing in camps for internally displaced people in Thailand for over two decades continue to face hardships and ...
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Photos of vivid Buddhist celebration in Thailand that’s a rite of passage for Shan boys
The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up to one month Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were ...
MC Shan’s albums vanished from record store shelves 15 years ago, and yet he is party to one of Hip-Hop s most celebrated battles. When cousins Shan and DJ Marley Marl released The Bridge in 1986, ...
Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination. The ...
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