Kachin News Group
2014-01-24
Government soldiers routinely extort money from civilian miners in Hpakant, western Kachin state; jade traders and miners tell the Kachin News Group...
2014-01-23
Yesterday the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) refused to allow Burma army officials to re-enter Nam Lim to make photo records of its inhabitants, a...
2014-01-17
A firm owned by the sons of Burma's former industry minister and current Member of Parliament, Aung Thaung, signed a deal in 2010 to construct hydro...
2014-01-17
On Wednesday the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Myanmar Red Cross Society distributed relief for the first time in northern...
2014-01-14
Last Friday residents of Burma's northern most state marked the 66th Kachin State Day. Festivities in the state capital Myitkyia included signing the...
2013-12-14
The next round of meetings of the United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC), an alliance of Burma’s armed ethnic groups, won’t happen until...
2013-12-13
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) accused government soldiers of shooting and stealing food from internally displaced persons (IDP). A statement posted on FBR...
2013-11-30
In an interview with ABC public broadcaster in Australia on Thursday during a trip to the country, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed...
2013-11-30
A group of Kachin Baptists on a train to Rangoon were pelted with stones last Wednesday while traveling to Burma’s former capital to mark the 200th...
2013-11-28
A shortfall of aid by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has created a food crisis in internally displaced people’s (IDPs) camps around...
2013-11-27
A Kachin Independence Army (KIA) captain and another soldier from battalion 12, under brigade 3, were shot and killed by government troops. The Nov...
2013-11-21
Senior Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) officials in Laiza headquarters ordered troops to not take action against the recent Tatmadaw (Burma army)...
2013-11-20
An unarmed Kachin farmer was shot and killed by Burma army troops after returning home to his village in Manje (also Mansi) township in southern...
2013-11-19
Government troops seized an internally displaced people's (IDPs) camp in southern Kachin state on Saturday after taking advantage of a Catholic...
2013-11-07
Talks between Burma's government and 16 armed rebel groups including the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) ended in the Kachin state capital...