Kachin News Group

2009-04-10
Construction workers from Thailand are building two big factories in Hukawng (Hugawng) Valley in Burma's northern Kachin State under the supervision...
2009-04-07
Hundreds of houses for over 100,000 workers from lower Burma who are to work in its crop fields in the Hukawng Valley in Kachin State are being...
2009-04-05
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the largest Kachin ceasefire group in Burma's northern Kachin State has launched an operation to flush...
2009-04-01
At a time when the jade market is being buffetted by adverse market forces, jade mining companies in Hpakant (Phakant) in Burma's northern Kachin...
2009-03-31
Uranium is being explored on the pretext of searching for gold and associated minerals by a Russian company, which arrived in Burma's northern Kachin...
2009-03-30
Intelligence agents in Malaysia have been meeting leaders from 10 main multi-ethnic organizations hailing from Burma in Malaysia since last February...
2009-03-27
China is secretly spiriting away Molybdenum (Mo) metal, also called Mukuang in Chinese from Burma's northern Kachin State while working in several...
2009-03-25
The raging dispute over two hydropower projects in Burma's northern Kachin State between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese...
2009-03-25
Teak continues to be one of the prized items for making filthy lucre in Burma’s Kachin State and the Aung Mai Company is negotiating with the Burmese...
2009-03-23
The economic hardship of civilians in Burma is directly connected to the Burmese ruling junta’s activities where it accumulates money from its people...
2009-03-20
For each truck load of teak transported to the China border, timber traders in Burma's northern Kachin State, have to bribe over 8 million kyat...
2009-03-20
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...
2009-03-19
Some Burmese women into jade business on the Sino-Burma border jade markets are doubling as sex workers for survival following the collapse of the...
2009-03-18
Severe economic hardship in Burma followed by the global economic meltdown, have forced people in Kachin State, who rely on natural resources, to...
2009-03-17
Since early this month, Anthrax, one of the most dreaded infectious diseases of warm blooded animals, has been killing cattle in Burma’s northern...

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