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Health Dept Monitoring Nearly 3,000 People in Kachin State for COVID-19
Kachin State’s health department has reported that a total of 2,985 people are being monitored either at home or in…
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Myitkyina Painters Promoting COVID-19 Awareness Charged With Insulting Buddhism
A group of young painters who created a work of art on the wall of a railway station in the…
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‘Not Enough Water to Wash Our Hands,’ Say Kachin IDPs Bracing For COVID-19
While thorough handwashing has been proven as an effective strategy to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, internally displaced…
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Gov’t Blocks Ethnic Media Groups From Mobile Networks
Three online ethnic media outlets in Burma are blocked on major mobile internet providers at a time when access to…
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Burma Army Warns KIO to Cut Ties With Arakan Army or Face Attack, PCG Says
Kachin civil society organizations say that they are concerned that the Burma Army is planning a military offensive in areas…
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Burma Army Raids Kawng Kha Militia Headquarters
Burma Army troops raided the headquarters of the Kachin Defense Army (KDA) east of Kutkai town in northern Shan State,…
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Coronavirus Rumours Cause Panic Buying
After rumours circulated markets would close soon due to the spread of covid-19 residents in Kachin State started panic shopping.…
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Kachin CSOs Want To Work With Gov’t To Combat Covid-19
Kachin civil society organizations (CSOs) want to cooperate with the government to prevent the spread of the covid-19 pandemic in…
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Burma-China Border Remains Open Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
While checkpoints along the Thai-Burma border closed this week, traffic continues as usual along Burma’s border with China, local sources…
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Nam Jim Economic Zone to Be Suspended, CSO Says
Plans for a controversial economic zone planned on the outskirts of Myitkyina has been suspended, civil society attendees told KNG…
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