The army has also lost territory in the western state of Rakhine. Like other minorities in Myanmar, the Kachin people have struggled for decades for greater autonomy from Myanmar’s central ...

where the Kachin ethnic minority lives. A people (1.7 million inhabitants) who have been demanding autonomy for over 60 years and have organized an army, the "Kachin Independence Army". In this area, ...

This time, not against the Rohingyas, but against the Kachin people in the north. The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Nick Beake met people fleeing their homes. The constitutional court voted ...

The largely Christian Kachin have long chafed at rule by the Buddhist Bamar ethnic majority. It is a point of pride among these frontier people that while some Bamar initially collaborated with ...

Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity, with the ...

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing joined regional talks in Bangkok on Friday, a day after his army launched multiple airstrikes, ...

The KIA is seeking leverage against neighbouring China, which supports the junta and has invested heavily in rare earths mining in Myanmar's Kachin state, according to two people familiar with the ...

YANGON: In Kachin State, the 2024 rainy season brought record-breaking floods along the Ayeyarwady River, leaving behind thick layers of silt but failing to produce crops, according to local farmers.

The KIA is seeking leverage against neighbouring China, which supports the junta and has invested heavily in rare earths mining in Myanmar's Kachin state, according to two people familiar with the ...