Kachin News Group
March 22, 2016
Thirty Kachin State civil society organisations (CSOs) called for a permanent halt to all dam projects in Kachin State due to a lack of transparency...
March 15, 2016
Leaders of the Christian Kachin-based anti-narcotic group Pat Ja San (PJS) said on 6 March that they were unaware that the group is being sued by U...
March 7, 2016
The Burma Army is preparing to launch a large military offensive codenamed ‘Operation Moe Pyar’ (Operation Sky-Blue) against the Kachin Independence...
March 1, 2016
A protest march, against recent attacks on members of the opium eradication group Pat Ja San (PJS), was held in Myitkyina, the Kachin State capital...
February 25, 2016
Troops from the Burmese government’s Border Guard Force (BGF) injured three members of the unarmed Pat Ja San (PJS) opium eradication team when they...
September 25, 2015
Three villagers were killed by fighting in Mai Hkawng village, in eastern Kachin State's Mansi Township, on the afternoon of Wednesday 23 September...
September 24, 2015
Long time New Democratic Army-Kachin leader (NDAK) Zahkung Ting Ying (also spelled Za Khun Ting Ring) has barred candidates from Aung San Suu Kyi's...
September 22, 2015
There was heavy fighting between Burma Army and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) troops on Monday morning at Laika Zup Ja Village, two miles...
September 21, 2015
Buying and selling of Hpakant jade from Burma's northern Kachin State is often done by Chinese Yuan rather than Burmese kyat.
September 21, 2015
Aurasian Minerals Plc (AuM) a British mining firm that last year applied for a mineral exploration permit in a jade mining area in Burma announced...
September 16, 2015
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) vice chair General N’Ban La met with President Thein Sein on 9 September in Naypyitaw in, apparently,...
August 21, 2015
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) donated 100 million kyats (aprox $90,000 USD) to assist with flood relief in Chin State last week.
