Myitkyina, Burma News

Child servers are a common sight at the average teashop or restaurant in Burma, where often the underage employees are working at the expense of schooling.

On a visit to China, Burmese activists from the 88 Generation Students Group have urged the main backers of the controversial Myitsone Dam to completely shut down the suspended project in north Burma.

A woman, with her two children, stokes a cooking fire at a camp for people displaced by fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, outside Myitkyina city in northern Myanmar, on Feb. 22, 2012.

Panghsang is the Wa capital and headquarters of the United Wa State Army . The United Wa State Army is pushing to upgrade its territory from an autonomous region to an officially recognized autonomous state in northeast Burma, but is not aspiring for complete independence from the national government, the ethnic armed group said.

Lt-Gen Myint Soe, the commander who oversees the government army's Kachin State operations, right, speaks with a KIO representative and peace negotiator last week in Myitkyina, Kachin State.

MYITKYINA, Kachin State-The government will release ethnic Kachin detainees who were arrested under the Unlawful Association Act, including Brang Shawng, a top official said on Friday.

France legalised same-sex marriage earlier this year, following months of controversy and massive protests.

Gen Gun Maw, deputy chief of the Kachin Independence Army, on the way to a meeting room on Tuesday ahead of peace talks with the government.

Small-scale gold miners pump water from a tributary of the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State.

Lt. Gen. Myint Soe, left, of Defence Ministry, sits together with Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.

The UN's special envoy to Burma, Vijay Nambiar, attended peace talks on Tuesday between the Burmese government and Kachin rebels in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, the first time the UN high official has participated in such negotiations.

Thousands of supporters turned out to greet a Kachin Independence Organization delegation as it arrived in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on Monday for a fresh round of peace talks.

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.

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.