Civil society groups have long opposed the hydropower project due to its potential to cause flooding and environmental damage ...
KIO and KIA say public opposition to hydropower project stronger than ever, amid earthquake risk, environmental destruction and mass displacement.
Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...
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 ...
On Jan. 25, the junta hopes, another 63 townships will go to the polls, whether its writ runs there or not. But even that is ...
Rather than the national polls, the outcome of the ongoing dynamics in Upper Myanmar between the KIA and the junta is a ...
Kachin Independence Army fighters walk in a jungle path from Mu Du front line to Hpalap outpost in an area controlled by the Kachin rebels in northern Kachin state, Myanmar, March 17, 2018. (Credit: ...
June 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar troops have clashed with ethnic Kachin rebels near Chinese-built dams this week, threatening Chinese energy interests in the country. Here are some questions and answers ...
Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...
MYITKYINA, Myanmar – Mother-of-two Ah Chang and her family were jolted out of their sleep when gunfire ruptured the night’s calm in Ting Kok Village. As bullets struck their home, they desperately ...
2025 seems set to continue last year’s sharp increase in the number of retaliatory air and artillery attacks on resistance-held territories. Myanmar’s military junta is ramping up its air attacks on ...