Kachin State, Burma News

A series of skirmishes took place in Kachin and northern Shan State despite government officials declaring that war has been stopped between government troops and ethnic armies.

Children's laughter rings out from bamboo huts along the perimeter of the Lana Zup Ja camp for internally displaced persons in a part of Myanmar's Kachin State controlled by the Kachin Independence Army : A group of pre-schoolers are playing in a plywood hut, seemingly oblivious to the squalid conditions surrounding them.

A Kachin refugee boy wraps himself with a blanket at a refugee camp at Man Si township in Kachin State, Myanmar, January 19, 2013.

The UN's Special Adviser on Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, will attend the May 28 peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization and the Myanmar government's Peace Making Committee at Myitkyina, according to Kachin peace broker San Aung.

World War II veterans who served in Burma commissioned this statue of American and Kachin soldiers, which stands in the U.S. Embassy grounds in Yangon.

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.