Kachin News Group
2009-11-25
Hundreds of Chinese loggers and log-trucks have sneaked into logging forests west of Salween River in northeast Burma despite being cautioned not to...
2009-11-23
Orchards famous for its oranges in Burma's northern Kachin State is being converted to Chinese-owned gold mines by Zahkung Ting Ying, leader of a...
2009-11-20
A hundred elephants have been requisitioned to pull logs from the forests near the hydropower project site on the Irrawaddy River to the log camps,...
2009-11-19
The business community is being forced to pay a fixed amount of money by the Burmese military junta in Kachin State in northern Burma as funds for "...
2009-11-18
A new branch office building of the ethnic political party, the Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) was inaugurated this morning in Burma's...
2009-11-16
A second Buddhist pagoda is being built in Pangwah, the headquarters of the former ethnic Kachin rebel group the New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K)...
2009-11-12
Preparations for the ethnic Kachin cultural and religious festival in Bhamo, the second largest city in the country's northern Kachin State, was...
2009-11-11
A newly-formed ethnic Kachin militia group in Burma's northern Kachin State is now operating under the direct control of a Burmese Army officer of...
2009-11-10
The Burmese military junta is secretly readying special troops totaling 300,000 for the elimination of ethnic rebels after the 2010 elections in the...
2009-11-10
The ethnic Kachin rebel armed group, the New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K), officially converted to the Burmese Army-controlled Border Guard Force (...
2009-11-10
Soldiers of five Burmese Army battalions deployed on the frontlines in ethnic Kokang territory in Northeast Shan State in Burma withdrew yesterday,...
2009-11-06
In a bid at extortion, seven passenger cars were stopped and fined heavily this week on the Myitkyina-Laiza border trade route in Burma's northern...
2009-11-05
Burmese tycoon Tay Za, a son-in-law of Burma's junta supremo Snr-Gen Than Shwe, is planning to contest from Puta-O township in northern Kachin State...
2009-11-04
China is concerned over the possibility of betterment of relations between the U.S. and Burma, local sources say. The Chinese government's security...
2009-11-03
The two strongest ethnic armed ceasefire groups--- the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and United Wa State Army (UWSA) are gearing up to...