Images of Kachin State 2008

Images of Kachin State 2008 Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw targets Kachin churches for referendum campaignsMinister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, of the Burmese military junta's Post, Telegraph and Communication Ministry and the regime's Kachin state organizer targeted Kachin Christian churches for…

Kachins hold centenary celebrations on American Baptist mission

Ethnic Kachins in northern Burma are holding their Centenary celebrations in the American Baptist mission for three days, starting December 29 and ending on December 31, according to people participating in the celebrations.The celebrations has to do with 'Thanks to…

Kachin state, waiting for an ecological disaster

Kachin State in northern Burma is sitting on a powder keg of an ecological disaster. From impending dam related devastation to the rape of the environment in terms of incalculable damage to the flora and fauna has rendered the state…

Kachin Heros 2008

Kachin Heroes 2008 Zau ShawngZau Shawng for his great services in organizing a series of anti-Burmese junta poster movements in Kachin state, we, the Kachin News Group (KNG) proudly honour Zau Shawng as a Kachin Hero of 2008. Zau Shawng…

China and Burma jointly open anti-trafficking offices on border

Police officials from Burma and China today opened two offices of the "China-Burma Border Anti-trafficking Officer Office" side by side in its territories on the border of the two countries' in northern Burma, said border sources.The police from both countries…

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Asia World collects road tax on under construction Hpakant jade mining road

The Burma-Asia World Company has begun to collect road tax on the Mogaung-Hpakant jade mining road in Burma's northern Kachin state soon after it started rebuilding the road in November, 2008, said local sources.The company started to reconstruct the stone paved road from 8 Miles, Mogaung Township t

First mass Christmas and New Year celebrations at Kachin insurgent base

For the first time, Christmas and New Year celebrations were jointly held by the public and the military on "Thanking God's blessings" at one of ethnic Kachin insurgent's strong holds in eastern Kachin state in northern Burma, said participants.Christmas and New Year celebrations were held at Jik Lo

Kachins hold centenary celebrations on American Baptist mission

NC HQ extorts money from all cars crossing Ledo Road

The Burmese ruling junta's Northern Command Headquarters (NC HQ) based in Myitkyina township, the capital of Kachin state, has been into extortion of money from all cars crossing the Ledo Road in the NC HQ compound, according to local residents.Earlier this month, military policemen in the NC HQ for

Spectre of dam disasters in northern Burma

A series of earth quakes in China's southwest Yunnan province, bordering Burma has brought to the fore the spectre of future Chinese-made dam disasters in northern Burma, said a Kachin watchdog group after a quake of 4.9 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Ruili (Shweli) on the China-Burma border ear