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Kachins form interim committee for 2010 elections
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:32

The larger ethnic Kachin organisations in Northern Burma set up an 'Interim Kachin Committee (IKC)' on June 20 to form a big Kachin and Non-Kachin political party to gear up for Burma's 2010 general elections announced by the military junta, sources said.

The ethnic Kachin players, the KIO, NDA-K and KNCA are all involved in playing a political game in keeping with the junta's seven-step roadmap to ‘disciplined democracy’ in which ethnic minority rights are ignored in the new constitution. It is ostensibly being called a step at a time for autonomy of Kachin State.

 
Beijing Olympic Games upsets border jade business: Kachin traders
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:59

As the Beijing Olympic Games in China approaches on August 8, it has upset thousands of border jade traders in Kachin State in northern Burma, said local jade traders.

Illegal and legal small-scale jade markets in Kunming, Ruili (Shweli), Tengchong and Ying Jiang in China's Yunnan Province is on a downslide without Chinese buyers since May, a jade trader in Ying Jiang told KNG today.

 
Non-Buddhist students must accept Buddhism in Na-Ta-La school in Putao
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:19

All non-Buddhist students in the school of Development of Border Areas and National Races (Na-Ta-La) under the Burmese ruling junta must accept Buddhism first before they are admitted as boarder students in Na-Ta-La school in Putao in Northern Burma, local sources said.

In Christian-dominated Putao district in Kachin State, local Christian students must fill in Buddhism as their religion in school application forms for both residing and studying in the Na-Ta-La school as a boarder, local Christian sources told KNG.

 
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Christian leaders representing several denominations who have set up their headquarters in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in Northern Burma should be indebted to lakhs and lakhs of members and lead them on the right track socially and in political turmoil. Hkahku Gam

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