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Myitkyina Peace Forum on March 19-20, 2019

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CSOs Peace Forum Aims To Steer Peace Process

Civil society organizations met to discuss urgent issues they say are essential for peace-building in Myanmar.

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President Travels To Kachin State

President Win Myint warned about maintaining essential health services for internally displaced camps to prevent the spread of sickness.

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Hundreds of Baptist followers in Sadon area celebrated centennial jubillee of Baptist mission in Sadon area of Waingmaw township in Kachin State on March 19, 2019

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One-Hundred Years Of Christianity Celebrated In Kachin State

Kachin Baptists gathered to honour the arrival of Baptism to Sadon.

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Company Charges Journalists With Defamation

Journalists said they were only reporting the facts about the mining company's dealings with a banana plantation in Kachin State.

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Hailstone Storm Strikes Kachin State

Remote villages, only accessible by a three-day boat trip from Myitkyina, were affected by the freak storm.

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Chipwe Township IDP Dies Due to Lack of Healthcare, Medicine

The local hospital has one doctor, who cannot visit the camps, and the hospital lacks medicine and basic equipment, a camp leader says.

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Yit Law indigenous peoples in Chipwi call for halt to eight proposed dams in N'mai Hka and Ngaw Chang Hka rivers on International Rivers Day on March 14, 2019

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Kachin Locals Call for Halt to Eight Proposed Dams on Intl Rivers Day

The proposed China-backed dams are located on two rivers, the N’Mai Hka and the Nga Chang Hka.

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VFV Land Law Must Be Amended: Kachin Politicians, Legal Experts

‘Ethnic people are likely to lose their farmland,’ says one Waingmaw Township lawyer.

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Recently taken photo a poppy plantation in the Border Guard Force's controlled area of Waingmaw township

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Burmese Government Drug Policy ‘Ineffective’: Report

The NLD’s drug plan in theory focuses on treatment and rehabilitation; in practice, it is implemented through arrests of drug users, a new report says.

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Mining Company Takes Legal Action Against Myitkyina Journal

Tha Khin Sit sues the publication for defamation after the journal’s staff sue the company for assault.

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Map of Kokang territory in Shan State, Myanmar

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Military Tension Rises at China-Burma Border

Troops from the two forces almost exchanged gunfire, locals say.

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KIA Brigade 6 troops at the front line in Northern Shan State

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Tatmadaw, KIA Clashes Intensify in Northern Shan State

Fighting in Kutkai Township enters its second day.

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