Kachin News Group

February 23, 2026
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February 23, 2026
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February 19, 2026
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Kachin Manau Park, Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State
February 7, 2020
Union Day Commemorated During Manau Festival
After a controversy over its name, leading to its cancellation in January, the Manau festival in Myitkyina has been rescheduled from February 5 to 12...
February 5, 2020
KIO Kicks Off Coronavirus Awareness Campaign
An awareness campaign about the coronavirus was launched along the Burma-China border in Kachin State by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)...
February 5, 2020
Pat Jasan Destroys Poppy Farms In Kachin State
Kachin anti-drug group, Pat Jason, have been destroying poppy fields in Tanai (Danai) township with the support of locals since early this year. Naw...
ICJ, The Hague, Netherlands
January 30, 2020
Kachin Orgs Welcome ICJ Ruling & Push For Wider Recognition of...
Some Kachin organizations have spoken out in support of an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague imposing emergency...
Kambaiti China-Burma border trade gate in Kachin State.
January 30, 2020
Coronavirus Check Established at Kachin State Border Gates With China
The public health department in Kachin State set up medical checks at the Kambaiti and Loije border gates to China on Monday in response to the...
Jade mine collapse in Nam Maw in Hpakant killed one on Jan. 20, 2020.
January 25, 2020
Jade Picker Killed in One of First Hpakant Landslides of 2020
Local authorities confirmed that a 54-year-old man was killed while picking jade during a landslide in Hpakant this week. The incident occurred at...
Kachin marks 5th anniversary of two Kachin teachers who were gang-raped and brutally killed by Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalion No. 503 in Kawnghka, northern Shan State on Jan. 19, 2015.
January 22, 2020
KBC Calls on Witnesses to Speak Out in Five-Year-Old Murder Case
Five years after the brutal rape and murder of two Kachin teachers in northern Shan State, the chairperson of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC)...
Nhtung Hka Naw Sam, chair of NLD ethnic Kachin affairs committee
January 18, 2020
KSPP Not Buying Into NLD’s New Ethnic Affairs Committee
The Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP) has criticized the ruling National League for Democracy’s (NLD) hasty formation of an ethnic affairs committee...
Uru Hka Stream in Hpakant jade mining township, Kachin State, northern Burma.
January 18, 2020
Hpakant Locals Call Annual Uru Stream Flooding a ‘Man-Made Disaster’
To ensure that flood damage is minimized this year in Hpakant, Kachin State, locals have demanded that the government enforce existing regulations...
Map of Hpawng Seng in Muse township, northern Shan State.
January 18, 2020
Burma Army Attacks Kokang Base on Day of Chinese President’s Visit
On the day of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Burma, the Burmese military launched an attack on an ethnic Kokang army base on the...
Myitsone dam project at Tanghpre, 27 miles north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, northern Burma.
January 18, 2020
Kachin Orgs Demand Chinese President Abandon Myitsone Dam Project
More than 50 Kachin organizations have called on Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is currently visiting Burma, to permanently cancel the China-...
The proposed Kachin jade center in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Burma.
January 17, 2020
Jade Market to Be Built in Hpakant
A jade market is being built in Hpakant town in Kachin State at a cost of 6 billion kyat (more than US$4 million), the state’s ministry of natural...