The junta wants to revive the long-suspended hydropower project in Kachin State despite a welter of humanitarian and environmental concerns—as a sop to its main backer China.

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, ...

The Myanmar military's ongoing offensive against rebels in northern Kachin State has resulted in thousands of people taking refuge in churches. And Father Peter Hka Awng Tu, parish priest of St.

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

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 ...

The clanking sound of leg irons shackled around the ankles of the unwilling patients signals the arrival of a small group of heroin addicts at the mess hall located inside a fortified Pat Ja San ...

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 ...

Mai Ja Yang, Myanmar (efe_epa).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 ...

Activists inscribe a call for federal democracy at the Myitsone confluence of the Irrawaddy River, north of Myitkyina, Kachin State, February 23, 2021. Credit: Courtesy Myitkyina News Journal ...

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 ...

Thousands of civilians remain displaced in northern Myanmar amid renewed fighting in recent weeks, many with little access to aid, bringing fresh concerns that the country’s peace process has stalled ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As the convoy of trucks laden with precious Burmese teak and sandalwood snakes its way into China from Myanmar, ...