Kachin News Group
2009-03-17
Given the spectre of ecological disaster hanging over Kachin State, ethnic Kachins in Burma organized ceremonies on International Rivers Day today in...
2009-03-14
In a role reversal, an increasing number of jade traders in northern Burma, who relied on jade markets on the Sino-Burma border, are turning to...
2009-03-12
Explosives will be used by Chinese engineers in the Irrawaddy River dam project in Burma’s northern Kachin State to dig into the rough river bed,...
2009-03-12
While working on dam projects for hydroelectric power in northern Burma, Chinese companies are secretly spiriting away unidentified minerals to their...
2009-03-12
For the first time this year, the Burmese ruling junta has ordered the seizure of oil in a meaningless move in Burma’s northern Kachin State’s...
2009-03-10
The Burmese junta brass has threatened to replace the Northern Regional Commander Brig-Gen Soe Win if he fails to pressurize Kachin ceasefire groups...
2009-03-04
With the help of the Burmese ruling junta, two firms of contractors are constructing labour camps for 15,000 Chinese at the controversial Irrawaddy...
2009-03-04
Maj-Gen Soe Win, the northern regional or Kachin State command commander of the Burmese ruling junta has amassed a huge amount of money by fleecing...
2009-03-02
Kachin leaders are all set to register a new political party of ethnic Kachins in northern Burma to contest the 2010 general elections announced by...
2009-02-27
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) is coming under increasing pressure from the Burmese military junta regarding the presence of its armed...
2009-02-22
For the first time in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state, the police detained two local internet users on February 17, for surfing websites...
2009-02-20
A new Chinese border airport in Tengchong County in the country's southwestern Yunnan province adjoining Burma was inaugurated on February 16. It...
2009-02-17
The Burmese Army has launched an operation against logging in the forests in Bhamo district in Kachin state, northern Burma, said local sources. The...
2009-02-14
The number of ethnic Kachin in Burma seeking refugee status has gradually increased in the two neighboring countries --- Malaysia and Thailand since...
2009-02-13
"Don't take independence together!", the British had warned ethnic Kachin leaders and this has come true today, the 62nd anniversary of the Union Day...