KIO and KIA say public opposition to hydropower project stronger than ever, amid earthquake risk, environmental destruction and mass displacement.

Civil society groups have long opposed the hydropower project due to its potential to cause flooding and environmental damage ...

Suspended in 2011 following mass protests, the hydroelectric project in Kachin State is set to be revived by the military ...

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 ...

The regime has ordered churches in the northern state, home to a large Christian community, to celebrate Christmas Mass by 20 December. Any public event related to the holiday is prohibited on the ...

BANGKOK — A helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s military crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts, a state-run newspaper ...

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: ...

As Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, visits China, those displaced by the Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam project in Kachin State hope any agreement made over the suspended project favors local ...

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...

YANGON, Myanmar, March 1 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that an inter-agency visit to northern Myanmar's Kachin state has successfully delivered badly-needed aid to hundreds of ...