Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission called for top Myanmar military officials to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against ...

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, ...

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 ...

Forty-nine CSOs and Kachin residents oppose Myanmar junta’s bid to revive the China-backed Myitsone Dam project.

Most ordinary Americans would hardly know of Myanmar, or Burma, as the US calls it, let alone Kachin, Myanmar's northernmost state, which borders China to the north and east and India to the northwest ...

ON THE rare days when the power is not cut here, patrons at the local internet café read the good news coming from the lowlands. After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by ...

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 ...

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 prepare for the upcoming Union ...