Its close proximity to Kachin state means that whatever happens there has a direct impact on China’s border stability. Its Jingpo minority group, in fact if not in name, are of the same ...

a border town and Kachin rebel stronghold on the mountainous Myanmar-China border. It reaches much of Kachin State and northern Shan State, where many ethnic Kachin people tune in to get the ...

The fighting in Kachin state has created a series of problems for China. It worries that it might trigger a large-scale influx of refugees across the porous border into Yunnan province ...

That includes the Kachin Independence Army in Kachin State, in Myanmar’s far ... Beijing probably expects any disruption of border trade along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor to be temporary ...

Northern Myanmar’s Kachin State is in the midst of a boom in commercial banana cultivation driven by cross-border investment from China, according to a new report. The report from Mekong Region ...

Kachin State, and the upper Sagaing Region. China’s border runs for 2,000km (1,250 miles) along the Shan and Kachin states, with at least 10 cross-border ports in operation in Yunnan province.

The women, originating from Myanmar’s northern Shan and Kachin States, were typically sold ... focused particularly on regions close to China’s border, Barr said that Myanmar is not the ...

Wars with Myanmar and Bangladesh are unlikely, but political uncertainties at the trijunction of South Asia, Southeast Asia ...

Second, KIA forces have also sought to extend their area of control to include the towns along the border with China. Third, the KIA has attempted to seize possession of the major mining areas in ...

China has made substantial investments in rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Kachin state. Due to the mineral wealth, India is also interested in this region. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA ...

State-run media in Myanmar report that a military helicopter has crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts ...