The Myanmar junta has recaptured two more military bases in Bhamo, Kachin State, but fighting continues in the town, ...

India is working to obtain rare-earth samples from Myanmar with the assistance of a powerful rebel group, according to four ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

In Kachin State, the military scored its latest successes since launching a nationwide counteroffensive earlier this year, ...

According to a media report, the military has formed a new committee for the Myitsone hydropower project, which was suspended in 2011. While the Kachin Independence Army's goal is unclear, a major ...

Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s ...

The Myanmar military's ongoing offensive against rebels in northern Kachin State has resulted in thousands of people taking refuge in churches. And Father Peter Hka Awng Tu, parish priest of St.

More than 2,000 villagers in Kachin state have fled their homes after fighting erupted between government forces and armed ethnic soldiers, according to an aid worker in the area. The villagers ...

ZHANG SHENGQI is nervous of the police. In Yingjiang, a Chinese county bordering on Myanmar (see map), he asks the driver of his car to stop so he can check whether he is being followed. Mr Zhang, a ...

As conflict reignites in Northern Shan and Kachin, 5,000 people this month displaced by the world’s longest running civil war More than 120,000 displaced in Myanmar’s hidden crisis New York, NY, April ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

Move raises questions over how much control government has over army U.N. chief Ban Ki Moon has spoken out against the strikes The Kachin have long sought greater autonomy from the government RANGOON, ...