Myanmar government troops fighting ethnic armies in the northern Shan State region near the Chinese border have once more been accused of firing chemical weapons during a recent resurgence of fighting in the latter half of this month, according to a RFA report on 29 October quoting a local resident.
A senior official in the office of Myanmar's president told RFA's Myanmar Service on Thursday that the army had been conducting military operations in the Kokang area of Shan State, but he denied the use of chemical weapons and said the country's armed forces "do not use such weapons at all." 
A doctor who answered the phone at the Zhenxiong County Hospital on the Chinese side of the border in Yunnan province said he hadn't heard of any patients affected by chemical weapons.