Forty-nine CSOs and Kachin residents oppose Myanmar junta’s bid to revive the China-backed Myitsone Dam project.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission called for top Myanmar military officials to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against ...

The military recaptured Maw Luu just days after retaking Indaw, forcing resistance groups to withdraw as the regime’s ...

The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

Cadets from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. Credit: VOA / Public Domain In west Kachin state ...

Myanmar’s Tatmadaw has been launching air strikes in the gold and mining region inside Kachin state’s Tanai township in recent months. The area is controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization ...

Yangon, Myanmar — At least 113 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the government and rescue workers said. It was the latest in a series of deadly accidents ...

Mai Ja Yang, Myanmar (efe_epa). — The leaders of 17 ethnic armed groups and organizations in Myanmar gathered Wednesday in a border town in northern Kachin state to prepare for the upcoming Union ...

ON THE rare days when the power is not cut here, patrons at the local internet café read the good news coming from the lowlands. After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by ...

Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that ...

Galau Dau Yang, 35, stands outside her home in the northern Shan State village of Kut Khaing. Galau Dau Yang, who is ethnically Kachin, was gang-raped by police. Like in most conflict zones, human ...