Kachin News Group

Photo - Bawk Mai of Tarlawgyi IDP
August 27, 2020
Kachin internally displaced persons (IDPs) have objected to a government plan to resettle them to a village which they say is affected by severe...
August 20, 2020
Dabak IDPs recently checked the primary school at their replaced village in Waingmaw township, Kachin State before returning in September. Photo...
Mr. Chen Hai, Chinese ambassador to Myanmar
August 11, 2020
China’s ambassador to Burma gave the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement 4 million yuan (US$574,209) last week to be used toward the...
Aung Myin Thar villagers’ recreational area in Chyinghkrang Hka stream, north of Myitkyina.
August 11, 2020
KNG — Villagers dependent on income from the Aung Myint Tha recreational area in Myitkyina, Kachin State, re-opened the site in recent weeks after a...
August 9, 2020
Not many citizens of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, checked whether their names were included on voters’ lists. Despite this, the deadline...
August 9, 2020
Naw Poe Kler — Organizers of the Karen Organization of America (KOA) are delighted 86 young Karen from more than a dozen countries entered its essay...
July 26, 2020
Parents of two students who were detained by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) following a brawl near a karaoke establishment in Burma’s Kachin...
July 26, 2020
Hundreds of homes were inundated after flooding overtook a village in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley earlier this week. Heavy rainfall caused the...
July 26, 2020
Kachin villagers displaced by war returned to clean their church in Ga Ra Yang village in Waingmaw township, Kachin State. Photo: Gumjanaw Nhkum...
July 16, 2020
Jade mining companies and government departments should be charged in the deaths of more than 170 jade pickers in a landslide in Gwi Hka mine in...
Yuzana bulldozers cleared forests near Awng Ra village in Hukawng valley, western Kachin State in 2008.
July 15, 2020
The Kachin National Organization (KNO) has demanded that the Yuzana Co. Ltd. unconditionally return land that it confiscated from locals and to leave...
July 14, 2020
The election commission is unable to collect a list of names for eligible voters from about 200 villages in Kachin State. “We have to collect a...