BANGKOK — Sporadic fighting has continued between Burma's army and ethnic Kachin rebels in Burma's north Kachin state, despite a ... spread the map, look at the positions, and start thinking ...

(New York) – Burma’s armed forces have committed serious abuses against ethnic Kachin civilians in renewed fighting in Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said today. Since hostilities began over ...

These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s northern Shan state ... a weapon by the military and police in Kachin state and neighboring Shan state, where ...

(New York) – The Burmese government should make a long-term commitment with humanitarian agencies to provide relief to Burma’s war-torn Kachin state, Human Rights Watch said today. Since June ...

But in the state of Kachin, in northern Burma, the elections didn't happen - cancelled on security grounds because of a continuing war between government forces and ethnic Kachin rebels.

In Burma, the death toll from military air raids in the northern state of Kachin Sunday has risen to 80, while some 100 people were wounded. Sunday night’s attack came as hundreds of people had ...

Yup Zau Hkawng is a well-known figure in Burma’s Kachin state, a broker in the peace process between armed rebels and the military and one of the few ethnic Kachin to own a jade mining business.

Kachin refugee camp in Kachin state in northern Burma, which houses 400 internally displaced persons, is run by a Catholic church aid group and receives regular donations of food and other aid ...

Burma's authorities have postponed by-elections to be held in the northern state of Kachin, where fighting with ethnic rebels resumed last year. They said security for the vote could not be ...

In the mountains between China and Burma, the Kachin ... Christian groups in Kachin state have been able to organize more freely and have taken the drug war into their own hands.

But in the state of Kachin, in northern Burma, the elections didn't happen - cancelled on security grounds because of a continuing war between government forces and ethnic Kachin rebels.