An ethnic Kachin Christian has been elected as speaker of the lower house of Myanmar's parliament, a move many say is a shakeup of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy-led government to ...

LAIZA, Myanmar – Ethnic Kachin rebels long at war with Myanmar troops say the government has only escalated fighting since Aung San Suu Kyi took over as leader, crushing the hopes that had led many ...

Myanmar’s military declared on Friday it will stop its attacks on ethnic Kachin rebels in the country’s north because it has achieved its goal of securing an army outpost there. Whether fighting will ...

Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The pastoral center on the grounds of the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Nan Hlaing, in a rural area of the diocese of Banmaw (northern Myanmar), was hit and destroyed by a ...

(New York) – Burma’s armed forces have committed serious abuses against ethnic Kachin civilians in renewed fighting in Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said today. Since hostilities began over five ...

James La Seng, chairman of the Kachin Refugee Committee, at its 20th anniversary celebration in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Kachin refugees have spoken about the challenges they face while living in ...