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residents. During British rule in Burma (Myanmar), Namhsan was the capital of Tawngpeng State, a Palaung substate of the Shan States in British Burma; and the...

Tawngpeng (Loi Lung in Shan) was a Shan state in what is today Myanmar. It belonged to the Northern Shan States. The capital was Namhsan (Om-yar). The...

January 1992 (1992-01) – present Headquarters Namhsan, Myanmar Active regions Tawngpeng, Shan State Ideology Ta'ang nationalism Federalism Size 800 (2011) 4,000...

significant export for Burma, largely cultivated in the Palaung principality of Tawngpeng. Mandalay Palace, built during the late Konbaung era, had a Tea Pavilion...

since before British colonial rule, the main trading centre for tea from Tawngpeng, and the hills around Kyaukme itself, inhabited by the Palaung. Burma...

Hsenwi in the northern Shan States and then to the border region between Tawngpeng and Mongmit to establish a new base for further resistance, He was killed...

Second World War. Before the British arrived in the 1880s, the Saopha of Tawngpeng controlled the mines at Namtu, although the mining work was undertaken...

Mrs. Milne traveled to Namshan, the capital of the Palaung state of Tawngpeng, to the Palaungs of North Hsenwi, as well as to the Palaungs of Yunnan...

Palaung and Wa were subsumed under the Shan states, although the Saopha of Tawngpeng Palaung substate was among the signatories. The Frontier Areas Commission...