The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has reiterated that gold mining in territories under its control is only permitted with the consent of local communities, amid rising environmental concerns ...

Hostilities between armed forces is disrupting campaigning for election candidates in Burma’s northernmost Kachin State. Burma Army and Kachin Independence ...

Lawa village in Hpakant Township has been left in ruins, with around 100 homes burned to the ground and at least 10 civilians detained, according to local sources. The village sits along the Lido Road ...

Four COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Burma’s jade-rich Hpakant town, located in Kachin State. The new transmissions may have ...

Four students were injured after the Burma Army (BA) shelled a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) bible school in Kutkai. A woman requesting anonymity who lives in the town in northern Shan State said ...

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mining companies squandered it to extract the precious mineral in Kachin State. “I’ve never experienced such a drought in the last four to five years,” a Mawsiser man told KNG, on condition of ...

SAC revised Article 505/a of Burma’s Penal Code in February to prosecute the Civil Disobedience Movement. The regime started using it to charge journalists during a crackdown on press freedom.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied forces simultaneously attacked multiple Burma army military camps near Laiza and along the Myitkyina-Bhamo highway on the eastern side of the Irrawaddy ...

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Thousands of local people need humanitarian assistance after fleeing armed clashes in Sumprabum town of Puta-O District in Kachin State. The IDPs need aid including food rations and shelter materials.

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