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

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Myanmar military conducted airstrikes on Bhamo, Kachin State, around noon today using jet aircraft, according to frontline sources from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Despite the absence of ...

Hundreds of Kachin nationalities have demanded the closure of a rare earth mine planned by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) in Momauk Township. Nearly 200 villagers from N’ba Pa protested at ...

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 ...

At least nine civilians, including four children, were killed when Myanmar’s military junta launched a drone artillery strike on a jade mining area in Hpakant Township, Kachin State, according to ...

mining companies squandered it to extract the precious mineral in Kachin State. “I’ve never experienced such a drought in the last four to five years,” a Mawsiser man told KNG, on condition of ...

Authorities threatened to fine residents in Kachin State if they don’t remove satellite dishes from their homes while warning them of a curfew from 8pm-4am and to hand over any weapons if they have ...