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    1556 Search results for "Kachin State"

    War, peace and protest in Kachin State video

    Kachin Lead Story Video

    War, peace and protest in Kachin State

    Amid an ongoing civil war in northern Burma, some are on a different “front lines,” of sorts — facing legal consequences for protesting the conflict, or otherwise working to bring an end to the fighting.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Amid fears of conflict in Injangyang, Kachin State govt looks to intervene

    The Kachin State government intends to begin the process of rescuing hundreds of civilians trapped in Injangyang Township by broader regional conflict, with the Burmese military blockading the road linking it to adjacent Myitkyina Township to the west.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Kachin State minister faces criticism over IDP relief response

    Criticism has emerged over remarks by Kachin State’s social affairs minister after he said the state government did not know the location of many people displaced by recent conflict, professing ignorance amid reports of hundreds trapped in the jungles surrounding Tanai Township’s Awng Lawt village.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Shelling injures three civilians in northern Kachin State

    Three locals were injured on Sunday night when an unidentified artillery shell fell on a house in Naung Lone Kaung Yar village, in the northern Kachin State township of Tanai.

    Kachin Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi

    Suu Kyi visits Kachin State

    A local NLD MP told DVB that her main agenda is to discuss issues relevant to negotiating a peace deal with the various ethnic groups.

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    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News Photos

    Inside one of Kachin State’s newest IDP camps

    Last month hundreds of internally displaced persons fled renewed conflict in Burma’s north. For many, they traded one IDP camp for another.

    Human Rights IDPs Kachin Lead Story News

    UN special rapporteur denied visits to Kachin State conflict sites

    Yanghee Lee was denied access to conflict-wracked Hpakant and Waignmaw townships in Kachin State this week as she undertakes her fifth visit to Burma in her capacity as UN special rapporteur on the country’s human rights situation.

    Conflict IDPs Lead Story News Shan

    15,000 flee to China from conflict-torn Shan, Kachin states: UN

    Up to 15,000 people may have fled across Burma’s border into China in the past month, a United Nations agency has said, as fighting between the Burma Army and ethnic armed groups intensifies.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Feathered dinosaur tail found in Kachin State amber

    Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered dinosaurs that prospered during the Cretaceous Period.

    Aid Kachin Lead Story News

    NGOs concerned by aid restrictions in Kachin State

    “The Myanmar Tatmadaw [armed forces] consistently hinders food transportation to the most needed area in Kachin State,” says JST.

    Conflict Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News

    Hundreds join vigil for peace in Kachin State

    Hundreds of people gathered in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on Monday to call on the Burmese army to end its offensive against the KIA.

    Conflict Lead Story Natural resources News

    Gold miners flee clashes in Kachin State

    Fighting between government troops and the KIA forces hundreds of people to flee gold-mining sites in Kachin State’s Kamaing Township.

    Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    Landslides in Kachin State cause food shortages

    Around 15 villages in Kachin State’s Hsawlaw Township are facing food shortages following landslides triggered by heavy rains on the weekend.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Drug vigilantes attacked in Kachin State

    Fourteen members of an anti-drug vigilante group were injured when the group was attacked while slashing poppy fields in northern Burma.

    Farmers Lead Story News

    Land grabs rampant in conflict-ridden Kachin State

    At the expense of poor farmers, land grabs have been on the rise since conflict re-erupted in Kachin State.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Drug vigilante murdered in Kachin State

    A member of a controversial anti-drug vigilante group was killed in Kachin State on Friday.

    Renewed fighting in Kachin State closes schools video

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video

    Renewed fighting in Kachin State closes schools

    Fresh fighting has broken out between government forces and rebel groups in Burma’s northern Kachin State. Many children have been unable to attend school.

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    2015 Elections Kachin Lead Story News Photos

    PHOTOS: Big turnout across Kachin State

    Thousands braved the icy morning air of Myitkyina to queue up at polling stations across the city.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    UN calls on all sides to protect civilians in Kachin State

    Tensions in the region have risen since an incident on 19 November when 23 cadets were killed by a Burmese army artillery shell at a KIA training camp.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics

    Parties covet vacant seats in Kachin State

    With by-elections due across Burma by year’s end, several political parties have noted an interest in fielding candidates in the vacant constituencies of Kachin State, where previous elections were cancelled due to ongoing conflict.

    BRIEF – Jade mines to re-open in Kachin state

    The Ministry of Mining’s Myanmar Gem Enterprise announced that jade mines in Kachin State will be re-opened in September after a two-year closure amid fighting between the Burmese army and[…]

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process Politics

    Thein Sein visits Kachin State on ‘peace mission’

    Civic society organisations, politicians and local people turned out to meet Burmese President Thein Sein in Myitkyina on Sunday for what they largely saw as a “peace mission”.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized

    Census begins in Burma’s Kachin State

    Burma’s Ministry of Immigration and Population has launched an advance census in remote parts of KachinState in the country’s far north. The controversial survey — which some have even requested postponing — will not begin until 30 March in most parts of the country.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    More than 2,000 flee as hostilities reignite in Kachin state

    Up to 3,000 refugees from a displacement camp in Kachin state’s Mansi township have been forced to flee once again when clashes broke out nearby between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army.

    Environment News Politics

    Displaced farmers suffer in Kachin state’s ‘tiger reserve’

    Kachin farmers forcibly relocated to make way for plantations in the Hukawng valley are enduring great hardship at the poorly equipped relocation site where they have been forced to move

    News Politics

    War, displacement fueling trafficking scourge in Kachin state

    After two years of war and displacement in northern Burma’s Kachin state, more people are being trafficked along the Sino-Burmese border

    Analysis

    Will there be genuine peace in Kachin state?

    After two years of fighting in northern Burma, the government must find a political solution to the conflict if they want to put an end to the country’s numerous civil wars

    News Politics

    As govt, rebels renew talks, roads reopen in Kachin state

    Major highways in Kachin state that have been closed since the outbreak of hostilities between the government army and the KIA in 2011 were reopened following the renewal of talks

    News Politics

    Clashes breakout in Kachin state despite recent talks

    Kachin rebels and the Burmese military are continuing to clash in northern Burma after holding talks with government representatives earlier this week

    China calls for ceasefire in Kachin state video

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    China calls for ceasefire in Kachin state

    A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry expressed ‘grave concern’ at the situation in Kachin state and called on parties involved in the conflict to realise a ceasefire soon. Speaking at[…]

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