Kachin News Group
2009-12-21
Construction of the dam at the confluence of the Irrawaddy River, which is a tourist spot, was inaugurated today at noon in Burma’s northern Kachin...
2009-12-18
Gold mining activity has begun in areas to be flooded by the dam on Burma’s famous Irrawaddy River confluence in Kachin State before the contentious...
2009-12-17
Ironically, relief efforts by the World Food Program under the United Nations have given a leg up to opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Kachin...
2009-12-17
A mining official from Naypyitaw was accidentally injured in a bomb blast over a month ago from a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) planted explosive in...
2009-12-15
In a development, which does not bode well for the Burmese ruling junta, thousands of Chinese Vietnam war veterans have joined the ethnic Wa rebels...
2009-12-11
Ethnic Kachin symbols in Bhamo in Kachin State, northern Burma were ordered to be suddenly removed yesterday morning just before the arrival of the...
2009-12-10
On International Human Rights Day, 442 Members of Parliament from 29 countries on Thursday urged the United Nations Security Council to set up a...
2009-12-10
Gearing up for the junta declared 2010 elections in Burma, an ethnic Kachin political party has opened 10 branch offices in main cities in Kachin...
2009-12-09
The Burmese military junta thrives on a cycle of corruption, which has spread its tentacles to all the government's civil sectors as well, said...
2009-12-08
There is an impasse between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese junta on the Border Guard Force (BGF) issue since October, the...
2009-12-07
Students of a government joint-middle school in a rural area in Burma's northern Kachin State are being forcibly used to clean a Buddhist temple even...
2009-12-02
Seven Chinese loggers were secretly put in a prison cell for a night after their belongings were seized by Burmese policemen in a partially...
2009-12-01
HIV infection is on the rise among people in the country's northern border with China's Yunnan province because of sexual promiscuity and drugs,...
2009-11-27
The first day of the cultural Manau festival was celebrated today by ethnic Kachins, in Bhamo, the second largest city in Kachin State after the...
2009-11-27
Yuzana Company, which has the backing of the Burmese military junta, has threatened to demolish a Kachin village in Hukawng Valley following a...