The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China.

JE YANG, Myanmar (AP) — Every afternoon, dozens of teenage girls at the school for displaced children line up on the grounds, dressed in white uniforms with belts of various colors: yellow, blue ...

Since 2011, armed conflict between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) — one of the country’s many ethnic armed groups — has driven more than 100,000 civilians from ...

All three police forces in the region should do more to prevent trafficking, recover and assist victims, and pursue both the traffickers and the buyers. International donors should fund ...

Myanmar women trafficked as brides into sexual slavery in China, reveals harrowing report ‘Each time when the Chinese man brought me meals, he raped me,’ says Kachin woman ...

State-run media in Myanmar report that a military helicopter has crashed in a combat zone in the country's north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts.

BANGKOK--A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital of Myitkyina, increasing the ...

Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in military airstrikes at a celebratory event in Myanmar’s mountainous Kachin state on Sunday, drawing international condemnation of the junta that ...

The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China.

In this Nov. 29, 2016, photo, 16-year-old Hkawn Ra, joins the karate training for self-defense in Jeyang village IDP camp, near China border in Kachin State, Myanmar. Forced from their homes and ...