Myanmar nuns empower the disabled In Putao, Kachin State’s northernmost town, the Xaverian Sisters have been transforming lives for over 25 years. Their boarding program has supported 310 girls ...

Guwahati: The Assam Government is clearing the decks for arms licenses to the people dwelling in the border areas. Same would be applicable in case of the vulnerable areas of the state to boost ...

China’s gender imbalance has birthed a shadow industry of bride-trafficking, where poor women from several Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, are lured with false promises and ...

International donors should fund nongovernmental groups’ efforts to help women and girls caught between Myanmar’s abuses against the Kachin and China’s war on reproductive rights. Heather Barr is ...

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar’s Rakhine State stands in his ... and they have no other home to turn to,” she said. The Kachin ethnic group is of the many refugee communities that have ...

Myanmar earthquake: Young girls trapped under rubble with grandmother film desperate plea for help - Red Sox Could Cut Ties With $50 Million Defensive Wizard in Blockbuster Trade With Mets Katy ...

The rebel groups have halted trade with China by seizing Myanmar’s rare mineral resources. Rebels from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have taken control of a rare mining area in northern ...

Video from the Myanmar earthquake has revealed the terrifying ordeal of being trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building. The footage shows two girls, aged 13 and 16, and their bloodied ...

Prior to the earthquake, 3.5 million people were already internally displaced in Myanmar because of ongoing political and economic instability, and 1.6 million of them were living in the hardest hit ...

Yangon (AsiaNews) – Myanmar troops set fire to St Patrick's Cathedral in Bhamo, Kachin State ... is accused of forcibly recruiting women and girls as well; according to another source, it ...

A protester holds up a sign during a demonstration against Myanmar’s military coup in ... Ethnic and religious minority regions like Chin, Kachin, Karen, and Karenni states have suffered ...

Three girls who went missing from a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State last weekend have been found dead, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has confirmed. The girls were ...