Lashio

Leaders of the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) held talks and agreed to peacefully resolve their disputes following recent clashes, according to an MNDAA statement.

With rampant theft ongoing in junta-controlled Lashio, the capital of northern Shan State, residents have been forced to ensure their own security and on Tuesday, they successfully apprehended a motorcycle thief in the city.

Junta military troops and police stationed inside the city and the junction to Namtu, near the entrance of Lashio, northern Shan State’s capital, are extorting hundreds of thousands of kyats from cargo truck drivers passing through the area, according to Lashio residents.