Kachin News Group

July 26, 2020
Kachin villagers displaced by war returned to clean their church in Ga Ra Yang village in Waingmaw township, Kachin State. Photo: Gumjanaw Nhkum...
July 16, 2020
Jade mining companies and government departments should be charged in the deaths of more than 170 jade pickers in a landslide in Gwi Hka mine in...
Yuzana bulldozers cleared forests near Awng Ra village in Hukawng valley, western Kachin State in 2008.
July 15, 2020
The Kachin National Organization (KNO) has demanded that the Yuzana Co. Ltd. unconditionally return land that it confiscated from locals and to leave...
July 14, 2020
The election commission is unable to collect a list of names for eligible voters from about 200 villages in Kachin State. “We have to collect a...
July 14, 2020
The Kachin National Association of Tradition and Culture (Myanmar) has issued demands to the President and State Counsellor to correct information...
A private school in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.
July 13, 2020
The government sent new guidelines to private schools with dormitories in Kachin State to ensure social distancing is followed when classes resume...
July 11, 2020
Kachin civil society organizations (CSOs) questioned the conditions leading to the senseless deaths of jade miners during last week’s tragic incident...
  Kachin Independence Army in Hpakant township, western Kachin State. File photo
July 1, 2020
The Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) fought in Kachin State on Monday after Kachin forces said that the Tatmadaw entered their...
June 27, 2020
Over 200 internally displaced Kachin families living in the outskirts of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, want the government to provide all...
June 25, 2020
Many Kachin citizens without national ID cards will be omitted during the 2020 general election. According to the Kachin State Election Commission,...
June 25, 2020
The Burma Army destroyed a COVID-19 checkpoint created by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in the Loije area on the Kachin State-China...
June 24, 2020
Two villages are caught in a land dispute in Kachin State’s Hukaung Valley after the state government declared an area between the communities of...