Kachin News Group

December 17, 2025
KIO denies reports of secret rare-earth mining deal with India
December 10, 2025
Junta airstrike hits school in Katha
December 9, 2025
Junta shelling in Hpakant kills three, including a minor
May 28, 2020
Putao Residents Oppose Foreign Mine
A poster opposing Fortuna Metals Company’s mining project in Hkawnglanghpu region, Putao district, northern Kachin State, Burma. Residents of...
May 28, 2020
Photo - Relocated IDP camp at Nyaungdaw, Namti, Mogaung township, Kachin...
Relocated IDPs in Namti in Need of Food May 27, 2020/ Kachin News Group Internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kachin State town of Namti...
Photo - New IDP camp, Chipwi township, Kachin State of Northern Burma.
May 27, 2020
Chipwi Township IDPs Leave Resettlement Site, Return to Camp
Internally displaced Kachin people (IDPs) have moved back to their camp in Chipwi Township after suffering from water shortages and difficulties in...
May 24, 2020
Kachin IDPs Running Out Of Food
Displaced Kachin who fled fighting in northeastern Burma are running out of food after no-one came to their camp to help them during the pandemic...
Kambaiti truck station on China-Burma border in Kachin State.
May 19, 2020
Kachin State Govt: Chinese Trucks Allowed Across Border Because Burmese...
The Kachin State government has ordered civilians not to block trucks transporting tissue culture bananas to China, which continue to travel to and...
Burmese teachers receive education online training.
May 16, 2020
Townships Without Internet Can’t Join Online Classes
Seven townships in Kachin State, without internet services, will be left out of the government’s plan to resume classes online, after the lockdown...
The two officials from the Burmese government and Kachin Independence Organization met on May 13, 2020, for the first time on the joint cooperation of Covid-19 prevention at KIO’s Mai Sak Pa Covid-19 quarantine camp in Waingmaw township, Kachin State, northern Burma.
May 16, 2020
KIO And Govt Prepare For Pandemic
The two officials from the Burmese government and Kachin Independence Organization met on May 13, 2020, for the first time on the joint cooperation...
Photo - Gen. Gunhtang Gam Shawng, Chief of Staff of KIO’s armed wing Kachin Independence Army, visited to the Covid-19 quarantine center in its de fecto capital Laiza, last month in Kachin State, northern Burma.
May 13, 2020
EAOs Cautious About Collaboration With Govt’s COVID-19 Coordination...
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) replied to and acknowledged the Burmese government’s official letter announcing the formation of a COVID...
Photo - First Covid-19 positive patient no.144 transferred to Myitkyina public hospital on April 25, 2020.
May 13, 2020
Kachin State’s First COVID-19 Patient Discharged From Hospital
Kachin State’s first COVID-19 patient—and Burma’s 144th—was discharged from Myitkyina hospital on Monday after testing negative twice for the virus...
Photo - Kambaiti border pass in Kachin State, northern Burma.
May 8, 2020
Quarantined Workers Will Be Moved Before Rain Comes
The Kachin State government will transfer hundreds of migrant workers staying in a rudimentary quarantine facility in northern Kachin State to more...
May 8, 2020
Lockdowns Hurt Businesses In Kachin State Villages
The model village so-called Aung Myin Thar where local people around Myitsone dam site were forcibly relocated by Burmese government in early 2009...
May 7, 2020
Mandated Quarantine For Kachin State MPs
Kachin State parliamentarians will need to quarantine for one week before attending an upcoming session in parliament. Tun Tin, the speaker for...