Kachin News Group

June 3, 2020
The Kachin State government held a meeting with Kachin youth in Myitkyina last week on the order of the National Reconciliation and Peace Center (...
June 3, 2020
KNG spoke with Pastor Hpauyam Hka Li, the head of Kachin Baptist Convention’s (KBC) development department, about the obstacles his organisation...
Burmese army checkpoint on Ledo Road in Hukawng Valley, Danai Township, Kachin State. Photo: U Lin Lin Oo
June 1, 2020
A parliamentarian called on the Tatmadaw to reopen gold and amber mines closed since 2018 when the Burma Army launched a series of offensives driving...
PHoto -  Lahta Maw Hpawng Baptist Bible Training School, Myitkyina, Kachin State
May 28, 2020
The trial of a Baptist preacher charged for using a walkie-talkie last year at a youth rehabilitation school in northern Burma started this Wednesday...
May 28, 2020
A poster opposing Fortuna Metals Company’s mining project in Hkawnglanghpu region, Putao district, northern Kachin State, Burma. Residents of...
May 28, 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) replied to and acknowledged the Burmese government’s official letter announcing the formation of a COVID...