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BANGKOK--A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar with the matter, as Beijing moves to secure control of the minerals it is ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Myanmar to Push Ahead With Suspended Myitsone Dam Project, Officials Say
China’s government is pushing hard for the resumption of the $3.6 billion project, which was suspended in 2011 amid widespread public opposition. The confluence of the Mali and N’Mai rivers in Kachin ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: How China Supports the Slow Strangulation of Myanmar’s Kachin Minority
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission called for top Myanmar military officials to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: In northern Myanmar, Kachin rebels claim attacks on army outposts as offensive gathers pace
BANGKOKBANGKOK — 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 ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Is Myanmar’s Kachin Conflict Really Over?
The visit on Wednesday by the United Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, to Laiza, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organization, is a positive sign that the conflict in ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Kachin civilians flee Myanmar’s ‘forgotten war’
Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmar’s army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: In Myanmar’s Kachin state, local priests carry on legacy of Columbans
A woman and children are pictured in the predominantly Christian region of Myanmar’s Kachin state, which has witnessed sporadic fighting for decades. Renewed fighting since 2011 between the military ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, Peace
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: How China Supports the Slow Strangulation of Myanmar’s Kachin Minority
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News Myanmar » Kachin: In northern Myanmar, Kachin rebels claim attacks on army outposts as offensive gathers pace
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK (AP) — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts ...