Kachin News Group
2008-06-20
Burma's ruling military junta has resumed its state-project of growing castor oil trees (Jatropha curcas) for biofuel production by using local...
2008-06-20
Gold mining areas in Nam San Yang village, 50 miles southeast of Myitkyina, in Waingmaw Township has been temporarily halted by Burmese military...
2008-06-19
Even six weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated parts of Burma, basic relief materials still have not reached the affected areas. Neither has basic...
2008-06-18
A Buddhist pagoda is being constructed by the Burmese ruling junta in a stronghold of the ethnic Kachin Christian armed rebels in Kachin State in...
2008-06-18
The Burmese Army in Kachin State, Northern Burma has been seizing herds of cattle for despatch to Cyclone Nargis-hit rice-growing Irrawaddy River...
2008-06-14
An artillery battalion of the Burmese army confiscated a herd of cattle from local merchants in the name of collecting funds for the cyclone-hit...
2008-06-13
Chinese oil dealers in Myitkyina Township the capital of Kachin State in Northern Burma are being fleeced by the police, who are extorting money from...
2008-06-12
The Burmese soldier, providing security to Chinese inspectors at the Myitsone dam project of the Burma-Asia World Co., Lt. in Irrawaddy River...
2008-06-11
Though the Burmese military junta has introduced free school education at the primary level, it has left the schools and its teachers in the lurch...
2008-06-10
All jade miners in Phakant in Kachin State , northern Burma have to contribute to the fund for Cyclone Nargis victims in the devastated Irrawaddy...
2008-06-09
In what smacks of racism ethnic Kachin students in Northern Burma were discriminated against during the countrywide government high school...
2008-06-08
A Burmese soldier went berserk and shot dead two of his senior officers and injured one yesterday at about 9 p.m. local time. The soldier was posted...
2008-06-06
Extensive deforestation in Kachin State in northern Burma is gradually increasing even as it threatens to have an adverse impact on the farmers of...
2008-06-05
Marking the World Environment Day, ethnic Christians in northern Burma planted hundreds of saplings in church compounds and its surroundings, local...
2008-06-05
Many people and organinsations outside the ambit of the Burmese military regime have come forward to help cyclone victims given the regime's...