Yangon (AsiaNews) – A spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Colonel Naw Bu, has denied that the movement's ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

Nearly half of the world’s heavy rare earths come from Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Kachin State, where China maintains access ...

Nearly half the world's supply of heavy rare earths is extracted from mines in Kachin state, where the Kachin Independence Army has been battling the junta since December ...

Mines in Kachin state, notably those north of the strategically important garrison town of Bhamo, provide about half of the ...

Chinese meddling and internecine squabbles threaten the existence of the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative ...

Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

As of June 2, over 232,900 people were residing in camps in Kachin state, including 149,000 individuals displaced by the 2021 military coup. Fighting has troubled this mountainous northern region ...