Kachin News Group
2014-08-27
The British environmental NGO Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been cooperating with the Burmese subsidiary of China Power Investment (CPI)—...
2014-08-13
Armed clashes between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have broken out twice over the past few days, according to KIA...
2014-08-01
A summit of representatives from 16 of Burma's armed ethnic groups ended on Tuesday following four days of talks in Laiza, the capital of the Kachin...
2014-07-28
China's ambassador to Burma, Yang Houlan, has denied a recent news report indicating that a planned train line running from Yunnan to Burma's Rakhine...
2014-07-25
Senior representatives from 16 of Burma's armed ethnic groups this week arrived in Laiza, the Kachin Independence Organization's (KIO) de facto...
2014-07-15
One Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier was killed and two KIA officers were arrested by Burmese government soldiers in Kachin State late last...
2014-06-24
Fighting between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) took place nearly every day last week in the Manwing area of...
2014-06-18
Police authorities in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina questioned Reverend Samson, general secretary of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC),...
2014-06-12
Life has become extremely difficult for large numbers of villagers in northern Shan State since Burma's military launched an offensive against the...
2014-06-04
Dr. Manam Tu Ja, leader of the Kachin State Democracy Party, told Kachin News Group (KNG) that Burma’s military-backed constitution must be amended...
2014-06-03
In a statement released on Friday, outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, expressed his concerns...
2014-06-02
Villagers forcibly displaced to make way for the Myitsone Dam project in Kachin state continue to oppose the dam, according to a referendum conducted...
2014-05-29
A statement issued following last week's meeting of 17 Kachin civil society groups called for civil society to be included in the ongoing Kachin...
2014-05-27
The deputy leader of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team, Padoh Swe Kwe Htoo Win, speaks on the first day of the latest round of negotiations...
2014-05-19
The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Friday that “an increase in insecurity and the displacement of thousands...