Feature
September 23, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
The winter breeze, mingled with the fragrance of nearby pine trees, was affectionately teasing the flashy face of a young school boy, who strolled...
September 22, 2009
| Naung Liang
A 27 years old woman was building a fire in a clearing at the base of the ladder leading to the entrance of the hut. As I sat beside her, an...
September 15, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Kaw Kaw’s has a dream, that someday her family will be reunited and have enough money to live together again. But, her short life has been an uphill...
August 18, 2009
| Nu Pan
Ah Too hoped he would strike it rich as a gold miner. But, instead, the 24 tear old from Kachin State has found himself struggling in the depths of a...
August 13, 2009
| Ko Reh
Karenni Soldiers Choose To Stay Behind As families Resettle. “Someday, my daughters will have wings and they will fly to where their father is.” Lt...
August 6, 2009
| BNI Members
Like many of the nearly 1.5 million illegal Burmese migrant workers employed in Thailand, 27 year old construction worker, Naw Naw, from Kachin State...
July 22, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
After it became famous as a gem land, Monghsu, a simple and peaceful town surrounded by creeks, valleys and mountains, also became vulnerable to...
July 22, 2009
The following feature story is part one of a three part feature series on Karenni cultural traditions produced by Kantarawaddy Times. - Feature Editor
July 16, 2009
| Leila Salaverria, Philippine Daily Inquirer
When the dogs start baying at night, fear begins to grip those living in a village in the west of Burma (Myanmar) where the Rohingya people live...
May 14, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The chase unleashed on “Druglord” Naw Kham by the Burmese Army following the shootings at a Chinese cargo ship on the Mekong on February 18 had...
May 1, 2009
| Ring Aung
A majority of the Naga, estimated to be about four million live on the Indian side, in Nagaland. The Naga in Burma is in the minority with an...
April 14, 2009
| Mungpi
Even as Burmese people across the country, swathed in a festive mood, look forward to the Burmese New Year and the rejuvenating water festival, a...
March 20, 2009
| Nawdin Lahpai
The voices like those of a Kachin Baptist pastor against the largest Irrawaddy River dam project site in Burma’s northern Kachin State are often...
January 31, 2009
| Nawdin Lahpai
Loads of gold are ready to be taken away by a Chinese mineral company from Burma's northeast Kachin state after the firm found a gold load in the...
December 11, 2008
| Nawdin Lahpai
The Christian majority, who make up over one million ethnic Kachin Christians in northern Burma of a population of 47 million in the country, have to...