Kachin News Group
2009-01-09
Today, ethnic Kachins in Burma's northern region started their four-day long Kachin traditional Manau Dance Festival marking the 61st anniversary of...
2009-01-08
An explosion in an underground jade mine in Hpakant in Kachin state, northern Burma on December 31, 2008, at about 3 p.m. local time killed two...
2009-01-07
This rice harvesting season, the Burmese ruling junta is buying paddy at a fixed-price higher than last year but farmers in Burma's northern Kachin...
2009-01-02
The Burma-Asia World Company has begun to collect road tax on the Mogaung-Hpakant jade mining road in Burma's northern Kachin state soon after it...
2009-01-02
For the first time, Christmas and New Year celebrations were jointly held by the public and the military on "Thanking God's blessings" at one of...
2008-12-30
Ethnic Kachins in northern Burma is holding their Centenary celebrations on American Baptist mission for three days, stared on December 29 and ended...
2008-12-27
The Burmese ruling junta's Northern Command Headquarters (NC HQ) based in Myitkyina township, the capital of Kachin state, has been into extortion of...
2008-12-26
A series of earth quakes in China's southwest Yunnan province, bordering Burma has brought to the fore the spectre of future Chinese-made dam...
2008-12-23
Police officials from Burma and China today opened two offices of the "China-Burma Border Anti-trafficking Officer Office" side by side in its...
2008-12-20
Bribes on a monthly basis is shelled out to the military, police and government offices by Chinese timber businessmen in Kachin state in northern...
2008-12-17
After a long gap in timber trade on the Sino-Burma border, China has resumed importing timber from Kachin state in northern Burma as of early...
2008-12-16
The Burmese military junta sentenced three ethnic Kachin student leaders to one year in a forced labour camp which doubles as a prison on charges of...
2008-12-16
Murder, suicide and torture among gamblers has been rising steadily with the opening of Chinese-owned casinos along the Sino-Burma border meant to...
2008-12-15
An increasing number of elephants in northern Burma are being killed for its ivory and skin for over a decade by local people, sources said ...
2008-12-12
There has been an increase in child trafficking on the Sino-Burma border in the past year under the Burmese military regime, the Kachin Women's group...