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Tatmadaw Refuses Bid To Resume Mining In Tanai
A parliamentarian called on the Tatmadaw to reopen gold and amber mines closed since 2018 when the Burma Army launched…
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Trial Starts For Preacher Charged For Using Walkie-Talkie
The trial of a Baptist preacher charged for using a walkie-talkie last year at a youth rehabilitation school in northern…
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Putao Residents Oppose Foreign Mine
Residents of northern Kachin State are concerned they will lose their ancestral land after the government gave a Singapore-based mining…
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Kachin IDPs Running Out Of Food
Displaced Kachin who fled fighting in northeastern Burma are running out of food after no-one came to their camp to…
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KIO And Govt Prepare For Pandemic
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the Kachin National Consultative Assembly met with the state government for the first time…
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Lockdowns Hurt Businesses In Kachin State Villages
Business owners in Myitkyina township are struggling to survive after COVID-19 lockdowns forced their restaurants and beer stations to close.…
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Quarantined Workers Will Be Moved Before Rain Comes
The Kachin State government will transfer hundreds of migrant workers staying in a rudimentary quarantine facility in northern Kachin State…
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Mandated Quarantine For Kachin State MPs
Kachin State parliamentarians will need to quarantine for one week before attending an upcoming session in parliament. Tun Tin, the…
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Social Distancing Not Always Being Followed For Returning Workers, CSO Says
With thousands returning en masse from jobs in China in recent days a Kachin civil society coalition cautioned that more…
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Kachin IDPs Face Food Insecurity During COVID-19 Lockdown
All the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Kachin State have been under lockdown since the end of March after…
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