On September 30, 2011, Burma’s President Thein Sein suspended a controversial US$3.6 billion hydropower dam project on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State ... us was a small stream.

A woman and children are pictured in the predominantly Christian region of Myanmar’s Kachin state, which has witnessed ... sits on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, a lush green mountainous ...

There are over 100,000 refugees both in and outside Kachin state. China, which lies just across the river from Laiza, occupies a unique role in the Kachin conflict. Its close proximity to Kachin ...

Activists inscribe a call for federal democracy at the Myitsone confluence of the Irrawaddy River, north of Myitkyina, Kachin State, February 23, 2021. Credit: Courtesy Myitkyina News Journal The ...

Any trip to Kachin state must start at the meeting place of two small rivers, cool from glacier water coursing from the Himalayas, that join and form the Irrawaddy, the grand river that has almost ...

More needles litter the rocky banks of the Irrawaddy River ... the head of the Kachin Baptist Convention, the largest group of churches in the state. The Kachin are an ethnic and predominantly ...

In June, an incident at a hydropower dam on the Dabein river, a Chinese-Burmese joint venture put an end to a 17-year ceasefire in Kachin state. Six months and tens of thousands of refugees later ...

Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in military airstrikes at a celebratory event in Myanmar’s mountainous Kachin state on Sunday ... along the Irrawaddy River. It also claimed it ...

The 46-year-old diocesan priest has grown up witnessing how violence overshadowed ethnic-majority Kachin state in northern Myanmar ... sits on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, a lush green ...

The Chinese authorities, torn between their support for the Myanmar government and strong local ties with the Kachin, keep a wary watch. The fighting in Kachin state has created a series of ...

Meanwhile, junta naval vessels traveling up the Irrawaddy River to reinforce military bases in Kachin State have come under heavy attack. By Sunday, at least five naval vessels carrying weapons, ...