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By AFP Beijing said yesterday that the head of a Myanmar ethnic armed group had come to China for “medical care”, after news reports in its war-torn neighbour said he had been arrested on China’s orders. China is a major ally and arms supplier of Myanmar’s junta, but is also thought to maintain ties with […]
By AFP Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta. Northern Shan State has been rocked by fighting since June when an alliance of ethnic armed groups renewed an offensive against the […]