Kachin News Group

IDPs seeking refuge in Tanai town have been instructed to move to Nawng Long Kawng Ra Village, where civilians have reported been injured by recent heavy artillery.
June 13, 2017
Thousands of civilians remain trapped after attempting to flee their homes amid clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army around...
June 6, 2017
Following public criticism for its attendance of the Union peace conference last month, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) held a public...
May 19, 2017
An ethnic coalition organization has called on the government to help support minorities by allowing them to hold national-level political dialogues.
May 2, 2017
An anniversary memorial service was held this week for a university student who was gunned down by a Tatmadaw soldier in Myitkyina last year.
April 28, 2017
Controversial anti-drug campaigners Pat Ja San led a march and prayer service in Myitkyina this week, marking the organization’s third-annual anti-...
April 26, 2017
A nine-year-old child was killed and her two sisters were left injured after a landmine exploded on a farm near a Tatmadaw camp in Kachin State on...
April 25, 2017
Around 100 Burmese military vehicles full of soldiers and weapons have arrived in the northern Shan State on 22 April, according to local residents.
January 30, 2017
The Kachin Political Cooperation Committee (KPCC) held a two-day national-level political dialogue for ethnic groups in the Kachin State’s capital...
Photo: Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng (left and right)
January 26, 2017
Two pastors from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) have been transferred to Muse Myoma Police Station after they were forcibly detained by the...
January 25, 2017
Skirmishes broke out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army in two areas yesterday morning (24 January).
PJS to restart opium eradication this year
January 25, 2017
Kachin anti-narcotic group, Pat Jasan (PJS), will restart its opium eradication program this year in the Kachin State before the opium season is over.
Gidon Post
December 20, 2016
The Burma Army launched air strikes on the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Brigade 3 Lai Hpawng Post, near Gidon, on 19 December.