Burma News International (BNI) | December 13, 2017 Over one-third of the houses in a Kachin IDP camp are in urgent need of repair, but due to a lack of funds cannot carry out the necessary work, according to [...]
By Nyein Nyein/Irrawaddy News | December 7, 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — As the Tatmadaw has restricted the transportation of basic commodities in conflict-torn Tanai Township, Kachin State, locals have run out of fuel and are suffering a rice [...]
Kachinland News | December 5, 2017 KIA frontline sources said Burmese army posts stationed in Momauk and Mansi Townships in southeastern Kachin state reportedly continued provocative shelling on their frontline positions. Bang Htan Ka Din-based 387th Light Infantry Regiment troops [...]
Lahpai Seng Raw/Kachinland News | November 28, 2017 It has been a full 2 years since the landslide victory of the NLD in the 2015 elections, and the subsequent formation of a civilian-led government. At this point in time, [...]
Karen Community of Canada | October 29, 2017 As the Karen Community of Canada (KCC), an organization representing ethnic Karen refugees from Burma/Myanmar, we have watched with horror as over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Burmese military atrocities over [...]
Progressive Voice | October 18, 2017 A new report by the UN Human Rights Office based on interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that fled the latest Myanmar[1] Army crackdown reaffirms the reports from media and human rights organizations of terrible suffering [...]
By Radio Free Asia | October 6, 2017 An ethnic armed group in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state has abducted about 40 villagers from Waingmaw township in Myitkyina district, the latest incident in the multiethnic country’s ongoing struggles with rebel [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 3, 2017 YANGON – Fifty-six-year-old father-of-two Bran Li is a former village administrator of Gang Dau Yang village in Waingmaw Township of resource-rich Kachin State. He has been sheltering, for the [...]
By Paing Soe / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 25, 2017 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Tanai Township will face a shortage of rations by the end of this month, aid workers say. To date, [...]
By Progressive Voice (PV) | September 13, 2017 The US Senate has proposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – the annual defense budget – to normalize relations between the militaries of the US and Myanmar[1] [...]