Kachin News Group
July 26, 2019
An outbreak of the disease began last month in neighboring Mohnyin and Mogaung townships. Students at Myitkyina University in the Kachin State...
July 25, 2019
Impassable roads have made it difficult to get aid to local villagers hit by the region’s worst flooding in four decades. Even though flooding in...
July 25, 2019
Residents of the unofficial Pangmati camp in Myitkyina say they have been denied the level of support received by other IDPs. Rev. Dashi Tang Nau, a...
July 24, 2019
The potentially deadly form of influenza has killed at least person in Myitkyina since the current outbreak started in June. Public health officials...
July 23, 2019
A decision by the US State Department last week to impose new sanctions on four of Burma’s top generals will hurt them without harming the rest of...
July 15, 2019
The murder of Nhkum Nang Htang has alarmed villagers and provoked demands for justice from civil society organizations. Calls for justice are growing...
July 11, 2019
The move is to counter illegal mining, a state minister says. The Kachin State government will allow small-scale gold mining in three townships in...
July 11, 2019
The Burmese government has demanded that the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) provide an inventory list of its weapons, as well as disclosure...
July 10, 2019
Gold is being extracted from cassava plantations, locals say. Locals in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley say that continued gold mining is affecting...
July 10, 2019
The UN agency’s recent findings suggested that they ‘hadn’t worked together with local people,’ the KNO secretary says. The Kachin National...
July 8, 2019
Officials in the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and Kachin politicians have said that the Burma Army should declare a unilateral ceasefire...
July 8, 2019
Police filed charges for their commemoration of the eighth year of war in Kachin State. Two youth appeared in court in Myitkyina on Thursday after...
