Villagers in Waingmaw Township say the land, including a local graveyard, is being used for a culture-tissue banana plantation. The Burma Amy will not withdraw from or compensate for land it seized from the village
The attack was the second in less than a week on a military convoy in northern Shan State’s Muse District. Forces from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ambushed a Burma Army convoy in northern Shan
The ambush comes amid tensions in peace negotiations between the Burmese government and the KIA’s political wing. An ambush on a Burma Army military convoy by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) left two Burmese soldiers
An outbreak of the disease began last month in neighboring Mohnyin and Mogaung townships. Students at Myitkyina University in the Kachin State capital have fallen ill with a variant of the influenza virus known as
Impassable roads have made it difficult to get aid to local villagers hit by the region’s worst flooding in four decades. Even though flooding in northern Kachin State’s Naw Mung Township has receded, local people
Residents of the unofficial Pangmati camp in Myitkyina say they have been denied the level of support received by other IDPs. Rev. Dashi Tang Nau, a pastor of the Assemblies of God church, has spoken
The potentially deadly form of influenza has killed at least person in Myitkyina since the current outbreak started in June. Public health officials in Kachin State have issued a warning about the spread of the
A decision by the US State Department last week to impose new sanctions on four of Burma’s top generals will hurt them without harming the rest of the country, according to political analyst Lazum Kam
The murder of Nhkum Nang Htang has alarmed villagers and provoked demands for justice from civil society organizations. Calls for justice are growing in the case of a Kachin woman who was brutally murdered in
