A UN human rights expert expresses grave concerns over a sharp escalation in hostilities in Myanmar’s Kachin State.
Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north.
Dozens of people are reportedly missing and feared dead after a landslide hit a jade mining region in Myanmar's northern Kachin state.
At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials say as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country's shadowy jade industry.
