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The two countries face risks from Myanmar’s civil war, logistical challenges and a potential pushback by rare earth giant ...
The Kachin Independence Army and allies surrendered Sann Kywal Village after fierce fighting on Wednesday and have reportedly ...
The Myanmar junta has recaptured two more military bases in Bhamo, Kachin State, but fighting continues in the town, ...
In Kachin State, the military scored its latest successes since launching a nationwide counteroffensive earlier this year, ...
Officials from India’s Ministry of Mines have reached out to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a powerful insurgent group ...
The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...
YANGON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar police have seized 209,950 stimulant tablets in northern Myanmar's Kachin state, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) reported on Thursday. Acting ...
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.
ON THE rare days when the power is not cut here, patrons at the local internet café read the good news coming from the lowlands. After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by ...
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 ...
Cadets from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. Credit: VOA / Public Domain In west Kachin state ...
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 ...