The latest clashes have broken out northeast of the town, as regime forces try to reach a strategically important hill base ...

India could've been getting half the rare earths that go to China today, ONLY if our politicians/babus cared,” Mundhra wrote, ...

More than 20 junta soldiers, including a battalion major, were killed in heavy fighting in Hpakant Township, Kachin State, on ...

Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...

For centuries, the small northern Myanmar city of Bhamo has owed its prosperity to its importance as a ferry terminus and ...

Fighting has flared in Lone Khin village tract close to Hpakant town as regime troops attack jade mines under KIA control.

At least 13 villagers reportedly killed so far; Resistance forces claim to have inflicted heavy casualties on the regime's ...

Kachin state hosts the largest jade deposits in the world according to geologists. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

YANGON: Myanmar's junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country's jade mining hub Friday, a combatant and a local ...

Major jade mining town in Kachin state was subject to military raid between May 27 and June 16, reports media outlet - ...

At least 30 civilians have been killed in less than a month during military operations in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, ...

While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw materials ...