Kokang Self-Administered Zone
The Kokang Self-Administered Zone ( my, ကိုးကန့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone in northern Shan State. The zone is intended to be self-administered by the Kokang people. Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010. Government and politics The Kokang (Self-Administered Zone) is administered by a Leading Body, which consists of at least ten members and includes Shan State Hluttaw (Assembly) members elected from the Zone and members nominated by the Burmese Armed Forces. The Leading Body performs both executive and legislative functions and is led by a Chairperson. The Leading Body has competence in ten areas of policy, including urban and rural development, road construction and maintenance, and public health. Administrative divisions The Kokang Self-Administered Zone consists of two townships: Both township ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Self-administered Zone
A self-administered zone is an administrative division, administrative subdivision in Myanmar (Burma). There are five ''self-administered zones'' and one ''self-administered division''. Self-administered zones and self-administered division See also * Administrative divisions of Myanmar * Autonomous administrative division References {{DEFAULTSORT:Self-Administered Zone Types of administrative division Subdivisions of Myanmar Self-administered zones of Myanmar, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shan State Hluttaw
Shan State Hluttaw ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်, shn, လုမ်းတႅၼ်းၽွင်းၸိုင်ႈတႆး) is the legislature of Shan State in Burma, established on February 8, 2016. It is a unicameral body, consisting of 137 members—103 elected members and 34 military representatives. As of February 2016, Sai Long Hseng of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) leads the Hluttaw. General Election results (Nov 2010) General Election results (Nov 2015) After the 2015 general election, the Burmese Military held on to a narrow majority of seats in the legislature. This is currently the only legislature in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) had not won the majority of seats in this election. There were 14 vacant seats that were not contested due to insurgency. See also *State and Region Hluttaws *Pyidaungsu Hluttaw The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု လွ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Subdivisions Of Myanmar
Myanmar is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include 7 regions, 7 states, 1 union territory, 1 self-administered division, and 5 self-administered zones. Following is the table of government subdivisions and its organizational structure based on different regions, states, the union territory, the self-administered division, and the self-administered zones: The regions were called divisions prior to August 2010, and four of them are named after their capital city, the exceptions being Sagaing Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Tanintharyi Region. The regions can be described as ethnically predominantly Burman (Bamar), while the states, the zones and Wa Division are dominated by ethnic minorities. Yangon Region has the largest population and is the most densely populated. The smallest population is Kayah State. In terms of land area, Shan State is the largest and Naypyidaw Union Territory is the smallest. Regions and states are divided into districts (; ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pheung Kya-shin
Pheung Kya-shin (; my, ဖုန်းကြားရှင်; 5 February 1931 – 16 February 2022) was the chairman of the Kokang Special Region in Myanmar (Burma) and the leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). Biography Pheung is of Chinese descent, and was born near Kokang's Red Rock River (红石头河) in 1931. He was the oldest of seven children. In 1949 he studied military affairs under Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai, the ''saopha'' of Kokang at that time, and became the captain of Yang's defense force, where he remained until Yang's was deposed by the Myanmar Armed Forces (the military junta ruling Burma) in 1965. Later that year he established the Kokang People's Revolutionary Army and began leading a small group of youth in guerilla warfare against the Myanmar Armed Forces, at which time his younger brother Pheung Kya-fu also became a military leader. In April 1969, Kokang province was established with Pheung as its leader. For 20 years he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 Kokang Offensive
The 2015 Kokang offensive was a series of military operations launched by the Myanmar Army in 2015 in Kokang in northern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). Several clashes between the Myanmar Army and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army had taken place from February to May 2015. Background The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is an insurgent group in Myanmar that was formerly part of the Communist Party of Burma. It became the first of a dozen armed factions to sign a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the then-ruling military junta after its broke apart from the communists in 1989. The Kokang Special Region was created for the group to govern autonomously, and the MNDAA, under the leadership of Pheung Kya-shin, maintained the ceasefire with the government from 1989 to 2009. The ceasefire was broken in 2009 when the MNDAA came under pressure to transform into a paramilitary Border Guard Force under the control of the Burmese Army. The MNDAA resisted this ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009 Kokang Incident
The Kokang incident was a violent series of skirmishes that broke out in August 2009 in Kokang in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Several clashes between the Burmese military junta forces (including the Myanmar Armed Forces, also known as Tatmadaw, and the Myanmar Police Force) and ethnic minorities took place. As a result of the conflict, the MNDAA lost control of the area and as many as 30,000 refugees fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China. Background The civil war in Burma (later Myanmar) began when the first shots were fired by the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in April 1948 in the small village of Paukkongyi in the Pegu District (present-day Bago Region). Since the late 1960s Kokang was under control by some warlords, the first of them were the Communists and later the Kokang nationalists. In March 1989 a group made by Phone Kyar Shin was formed as a splinter group from the CPB called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). The rebels in Kokang made ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Laukkaing District
Laogai District ( my, လောက်ကိုင်ခရိုင်) is a district of the Shan State in Myanmar. It consists 2 towns and 333 villages. It is located in Kokang Self-Administered Zone according to the Constitution of Myanmar (2008). Townships The district contains the following townships: *Laukkaing Township, or Laukkai Township * Kongyan Township, or Konkyan Township See also * *Kokang incident
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Laukkaing Township
Laukkaing Township ( my, လောက်ကိုင်မြို့နယ်) is a township located within Laukkaing District, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also part of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone. The principal town is Laukkai a.k.a. Laukkaing. Geography Laukkaing shares a border with Kongyan Township in the north, with the People's Republic of China in the north and east, with Kunlong Township in the south and with Kutkai Township Kutkai Township is a township of Muse District in the Shan State of eastern Burma. The principal town is Kutkai. Geography It shares the border with Laukkaing Township (Laukkai Township) of Laukkaing District in the east. It shares the borders wi ... in the west. It has 31 border posts, and is situated at above sea level. Few plains can be seen in Laukkai, Mangtonpa, Yanlongkyaing, Pasinkyaw and Namhuhtan. The remaining area is mountainous and from 3,000 to above sea level. The total area is and the population is over 70,000. Rubber, lyc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Konkyan Township
Konkyan Township or Kongyan Township ( my, ကုန်းကြမ်းမြို့နယ်) is a township located within Laukkaing District, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also part of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone. The capital town is Konkyan. Geography It is sharing a border with Laukkaing Township Laukkaing Township ( my, လောက်ကိုင်မြို့နယ်) is a township located within Laukkaing District, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also part of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone. The principal town is Laukkai a.k.a. Lau .... It is situated at above sea level. The remaining area is mainly mountainous. Rubber, lychee, mango, walnut and pear are grown in this area as poppy substitutes. Sugarcane, pineapple, corn, buckwheat, soybean and various vegetables are also grown. Further reading [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Konkyan Tsp In Laukkaing District
Konkyan ( my, ကုန်းကြမ်းမြို့) is a town in Konkyan Township, Shan State of Myanmar. It is also a part of Kokang Self-Administered Zone The Kokang Self-Administered Zone ( my, ကိုးကန့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone in northern .... References Populated places in Shan State {{Shan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Weekly Eleven
''Weekly Eleven'' is a weekly newspaper published in Myanmar (Burma). It is one of the five weekly journals published by Eleven Media Group which was founded in June 2000. It is focused on general local news and some sports and international news. It won the "Media of the Year" award in 2011 from Reporters Without Borders, for standing up to the junta and "using extraordinary ingenuity to slip through the censorship net and inform the public". A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Yangon on 4 May 2012 by Nation Multimedia Group chairman Suthichai Yoon and Eleven Media Group chairman and CEO Dr Than Htut Aung to form a joint venture in a wide range of English-language publications. See also * List of newspapers in Myanmar This is a list of newspapers in Myanmar. Daily newspapers State-run *''Kyemon'' (''The Mirror'') - a government-run daily newspaper (Burmese) *''Myanma Alin'' (''The Light of Myanmar'') - a government-run daily newspaper (Burmese) *'' Myawady Dail ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |