1 of 5 — Kachin Independence Army recruits train at a military base in Maijiayang, Kachin State, Myanmar. The KIA has around 8,000 soldiers and has been fighting the Burmese government for ...

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

FILE - Hkalam Samson, left, poses for photography together with his wife after his release from the prison in Myintkyina township in Kachin state, Myanmar on April 17, 2024. A prominent Christian ...

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

BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an ...

As the regime presses ahead with a tightly controlled first phase of voting on Sunday, large swathes of the country remain ...

Rather than the national polls, the outcome of the ongoing dynamics in Upper Myanmar between the KIA and the junta is a better political barometer for the country's course next year.

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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a search and rescue operation was underway on Monday, a rescue official said. The incident occurred ...

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 ...

REUTERS - Troops in Myanmar have murdered, tortured and raped civilians since fighting with separatists flared up around nine months ago in northern Kachin State, leading to the displacement of 75,000 ...