[ noun ] a branch of the Tai languages <noun.communication>
The award was in Gau Shan's favour.
Amnesty International says witnesses tell it Burmese troops have killed and tortured rice farmers and other Shan tribespeople in suppressing an insurgency among Burma's largest ethnic minority.
Some of the insurgent groups are described as mere traffickers in opium, which is grown in great quantity in Shan State, but the tribespeople also have a long tradition of seeking cultural and political independence from the more powerful Burmans.
Shan Guangnai of the China Academy of Social Sciences said suicide is the leading cause of abnormal deaths in China, and 70 percent of all victims are female, the official China Daily reported today.
Having dropped down to sea level from Maoma Shan in an exhilarating and rapid descent, we found ourselves cycling in quite different country.
They include the Burma Communist Party, the Kachin Independence Army in the north and northeast, the Shan rebels in the east and the Karen National Union in the southeastern and central region.
Witnesses said it was the largest rally ever in the Shan state capital, 290 miles northeast of the capital.
Kachin as well as Palaung and Shan rebel groups operate in the Namtu area.
The nearly 1,200 delegates attending the morning session of the ruling party's 13th congress gave Madame Chiang an emotional standing ovation as she stepped onto the stage at the Chung Shan Building in the hills of suburban Taipei.
Electronic surveillance turned up five other narcotics organizations, one directly linked to the Shan United Army of General Khnu Sa, based in the Burmese jungle.
The 10-building complex is a scaled-down replica of the mammoth Fo Kuang Shan temple in Taipei, and will include a main shrine, a monastery for 50 monks and nuns, a library and meeting rooms.
Rural women are still treated as dependents and men dominate in the family, Shan said, adding that the psychological and emotional needs of women are largely ignored.
Amnesty previously said the two students had taken leading roles in the August and September demonstrations for democracy in Shan state.
The Burmese government said that its troops, backed by air strikes and artillery, overran his Shan State headquarters in May 1984.