Kachin State, Burma News

About 40 ethnic activist groups are calling on the government, ethnic militias and the international community to address a surge in land-grabbing, as companies move into Burma's ethnic regions following recent ceasefire agreements.

Glass half empty in Myanmar By Sina Schuessler Myanmar's transition can be viewed from two different broad perspectives.

Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said on Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence.

Pointing down at the three inches of water at the bottom of the school's concrete tank, Seng Htoi wrinkles her nose.

The city of Myitkyina is with its different ethnicities and mixed religious beliefs the proverbial melting pot in Kachin, the northernmost state of Myanmar.

A woman at a camp for people displaced by fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army outside the city of Myitkyina in northern Burma.

The United Nationalities Federal Council urges the European Union to maintain the current level of sanctions on Burma until the Government of Burma takes further steps to demonstrate its commitment to peace, political reform, and respect for human rights.

Traditional Kachin music fills the community hall as a troupe of singers bellows out a song for family and friends at the Teacher Training College in the town of Mai Ja Yang.