Kachin News Group
2009-10-29
Jade mining has resumed in full swing in Hpakant in Burma's Northern Kachin State a couple of weeks ago, after military tension between the Burmese...
2009-10-28
Retired soldiers of the erstwhile Communist Party of Burma (CPB) are being recruited by the ethnic Kachin ceasefire group, the New Democratic Army-...
2009-10-27
China has been urged by a Kachin watchdog group to put a halt to the dam project in Burma's natural heritage and historic site of ethnic Kachins...
2009-10-23
Given the political imbroglio in military-ruled Burma, a Kachin Baptist youth leaders' meeting in Sadung in northern Kachin State focussed on the...
2009-10-22
Troops of the New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K), a Kachin ceasefire group, is being imparted military training by the Burmese Army since early...
2009-10-21
In what is an unusual move, Chinese border guards have been scrutinizing and fining cross-border Burmese travellers in the country's southwest Yunnan...
2009-10-21
In a major development the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has said it is willing to surrender its weapons, without the need to transform to...
2009-10-19
Lasang Awng Wa Peace Group, which had split from the Kachin Independence Organization and its armed-wing the Kachin Independence Army in Burma's...
2009-10-19
No relief has reached the people in the Triangle Areas in Burma's northern Kachin State, hit by the second rat-induced famine over the past two...
2009-10-16
Ethnic Kachins observed the anniversary of the FAO's (Food and Agriculture Organization) of United Nation’s ‘World Food Day’ today in the Christian...
2009-10-16
Rat infestation has caused severe famine for the second time in recent memory in the Kachin hills in military-ruled Burma's northern Kachin State,...
2009-10-15
Land confiscation by the Burmese military junta has left indigenous Kachins in food-rich Hukawng (also spelled Hugawng) valley in northern Kachin...
2009-10-13
Leaders of two ethnic Kachin armed groups from northern Burma have been hospitalized in Mandalay, said sources. In early October, Lanyaw Zawng Hra,...
2009-10-12
To expedite and implement conversion to the Border Guard Force (BGF), the Burmese Army has dispatched troops to the headquarters of the New...
2009-10-09
Six trucks plying on Burma's main Mandalay-Muse trade route were forcibly stopped and made to transport tons of arms and rations for Burmese troops...