Kachin News Group

December 10, 2025
Junta airstrike hits school in Katha
December 9, 2025
Junta shelling in Hpakant kills three, including a minor
December 9, 2025
Nine civilians killed by junta airstrike in Momeik District
March 6, 2019
Govt Calls Off Bilateral Ceasefire With Northern Alliance Members
The Burmese government’s peace commission canceled a bilateral ceasefire proposed with four members of the Northern Alliance of ethnic armed groups...
March 4, 2019
Awng Lawt IDPs Say They Will Return Home Only If ‘No Other Option’
Internally displaced people (IDPs) from Awng Lawt village in Tanai Township, Kachin State, have said they only want to return to their homes once a...
March 4, 2019
KHCC to Meet KIO Leaders to Discuss IDP Return
The Kachin Humanitarian Concern Committee (KHCC), headed by church leaders, will meet with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in the coming...
March 1, 2019
Journalists Assaulted By Mining Company
Two journalists were assaulted by staff of a mining company after they detained them for publishing an unfavourable story about the company's...
February 27, 2019
Burma Army Convoy Heads to Putao Following Peace Talks
A convoy of military vehicles left the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina for the northern town of Putao on Tuesday morning, immediately following...
February 27, 2019
USDP Offers Kachin State Land Plots In Exchange For 2020 Election Victory
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has offered plots of land in Kachin State’s Mogaung Township to those who support them in Burma’s...
February 26, 2019
Govt Blames Locals—Not Commercial Banana Plantations—For Contaminated Water
Alarming numbers of dead fish in a Waingmaw Township creek are not due to pesticides from nearby tissue culture banana plantations, representatives...
February 21, 2019
Kachin State Govt Permits Gold Mining in Six Townships
The Kachin State government gave permission for small-scale gold extraction to begin in six of the state’s 18 townships on Wednesday. A ceremony...
February 21, 2019
‘We Cannot Grow Plants on Disposable Stones’: Indigenous Rights Group...
Ethnic Kachin people in Hpakant, Kachin State, formed a leadership body on Monday —known as the Indigenous Rights Group of Mungnawk Hkawng Uru Ga—...
February 20, 2019
Meeting Between Burma Govt, Northern Alliance Postponed
The first scheduled informal meeting between the Burmese government’s National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) and members of the Northern...
Photo of Feb. 16, 2019 shows Chinese tissue culture bananas in Aung May Thit village, Waingmaw township, Kachin State
February 19, 2019
Dead Fish Raise Concerns of Contaminated Water in Waingmaw
Locals say they are alarmed by the unusual number and variety of dead fish in the Nam Myin Hka creek near a tissue culture banana plantation in...
February 18, 2019
Nippon Foundation to Provide Assistance for Kachin IDP Return
Representatives of the Nippon Foundation told a delegation from the Kachin Humanitarian Concern Committee (KHCC) this week that they would provide...