A local resident expressed a desire to speak out, but he was hesitant due to serious security concerns. Throughout the ...

A combined force of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Arakan Army (AA) and Kachin Region People’s Defense Force (KPDF) seized the strategic Jehkam base from the Burma army following a three-day ...

The people of Myitkyina have taken the law into their own hands by punishing illicit drug users in a ward in the capital of Kachin State. An anonymous male source told KNG that residents from Rampu ...

On Wednesday, two clashes took place between Battalion 3 of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), under Brigade 5, and regime forces on the road between Waimaw and Chipwi in Waimaw Township. The KIA ...

A rare earth mining site with chemical leaching ponds in Chiphwi Township, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 2026. Myanmar, also known as Burma, is often portrayed internationally as a country defined ...

The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has reiterated that gold mining in territories under its control is only permitted with the consent of local communities, amid rising environmental concerns ...

Nearly 40 young people were killed when Myanmar’s military junta launched an airstrike on a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) training camp in Mohnyin District, Kachin State, even as the country grapples ...

Some ethnic Lhaovo leaders are reportedly recruiting youth to form a Lhaovo People’s Militia Force (PMF) with assistance from State Administration Council (SAC) despite facing criticism from their ...

Residents of a village in Kachin State have told KNG that their water source has become discoloured after large-scale gold mining took place nearby following the military coup in Burma over a year ago ...

KNG talked with Mr Zet, head of the Kachin Backpack Health Worker Team (KBHWT), to learn about how his organisation is helping villagers living in the Bumra Yang internally displaced persons (IDP) ...

Armed forces fired live rounds killing one person, seriously injuring another at a protest in Hpakant town, Kachin State, during Global Myanmar Spring Revolution Day, which saw peaceful rallies ...

Four students were injured after the Burma Army (BA) shelled a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) bible school in Kutkai. A woman requesting anonymity who lives in the town in northern Shan State said ...