Kachin News Group

May 2, 2017
An anniversary memorial service was held this week for a university student who was gunned down by a Tatmadaw soldier in Myitkyina last year.
April 28, 2017
Controversial anti-drug campaigners Pat Ja San led a march and prayer service in Myitkyina this week, marking the organization’s third-annual anti-...
April 26, 2017
A nine-year-old child was killed and her two sisters were left injured after a landmine exploded on a farm near a Tatmadaw camp in Kachin State on...
April 25, 2017
Around 100 Burmese military vehicles full of soldiers and weapons have arrived in the northern Shan State on 22 April, according to local residents.
January 30, 2017
The Kachin Political Cooperation Committee (KPCC) held a two-day national-level political dialogue for ethnic groups in the Kachin State’s capital...
Photo: Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng (left and right)
January 26, 2017
Two pastors from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) have been transferred to Muse Myoma Police Station after they were forcibly detained by the...
January 25, 2017
Skirmishes broke out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army in two areas yesterday morning (24 January).
PJS to restart opium eradication this year
January 25, 2017
Kachin anti-narcotic group, Pat Jasan (PJS), will restart its opium eradication program this year in the Kachin State before the opium season is over.
Gidon Post
December 20, 2016
The Burma Army launched air strikes on the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Brigade 3 Lai Hpawng Post, near Gidon, on 19 December.
Roman Catholic Church Bombed by the Burma Army in Mong Ko
December 15, 2016
The Burma Army bombed a Roman Catholic Church in Mong Ko Town in northern Shan State where it is fighting with the Northern Alliance.
December 2, 2016
The Burmese Government in Naypyidaw has refused permission for a Kachin public workshop to be held in Myitkyina, the Kachin State capital, on 28...
November 22, 2016
The Chinese Government ordered the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) to shut down its liaison and anti-narcotic offices in Man Hai, China, just...