BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The situation inside Kayah State on the other side of ... patrolling the border area opposite Khun Yuam district and Myanmar soldiers had been spotted ...

appointed foreign ministry recently described the skirmishes in Kayah state capital Loikaw 10 days earlier as an attack staged by “terrorists”. It said in a statement that the ethnic armed ...

Following intense clashes, several thousand people from Loikaw, Demoso, Hpruso and Pekon were forced to seek refuge in Southern Shan State. They are now sheltering ... several sites where people ...

Kayah State, Myanmar – When the military ... Fighting had since shifted to Loikaw, the state capital, but few civilians had returned home, leaving the area largely devoid of people.

Ethnic Kayaw people are pictured in a file photo after Mass outside a church in the village of Htay Kho in Myanmar’s Kayah state. At least 15 parishes in Loikaw Diocese have been severely ...

A member of the Karenni insurgent forces is seen outside a building near Loikaw in Kayah State, Myanmar, this month. (Reuters) Nearly three years after Myanmar’s military staged a coup against a ...

The United Nations said on Tuesday an estimated 100,000 people in Myanmar’s Kayah state had been ... Hpruso and the state capital Loikaw, where a resident described a climate of fear, with ...

On the same day, shelling hit the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Phruso, a city in the Diocese of Loikaw, in the western Kayah State, The building, which was built four years ...

Myanmar pro-democracy fighters from the People's Defence Force (PDF) are determined to capture Loikaw, the state capital of Kayah state, from the junta. They are battling against the military's ...

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Doukhu Parish of Loikaw township in Kayah state was hit by military airstrikes on Jan. 12, according to church sources. One of the two bell towers of the church was ...

Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Loikaw, capital of Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, welcomed its new Bishop, ordained yesterday on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, with a ...