Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting between the army and ethnic Kachin rebels in Myanmar's northernmost state. Some 4,000 people have been driven from their homes since early April ...

This guaranteed that China would relinquish her claims to the Wa States in return for Burma’s surrender of three Kachin villages annexed by Burma in the days of British rule. The Kachin ...

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 ...

The terrifying attack in Kachin State came as a group of local civil society groups called on ASEAN to junk the bloc’s “ineffectual” five-point peace plan. Myanmar’s military and ethnic ...

No figure was given for the number of people still missing. Kachin state's minister of social affairs, Dashi La Seng, told BBC Burmese: "All of a sudden... huge amounts of mud together with ...

In 1994 and 1995 Kachin and Mon armed groups signed ceasefires with the government. Research conducted bythe TBBC in eastern Burma in 2004 and field work conducted by Human Rights Watch in eastern ...