Dendrobium naungmungense (Orchidaceae, Dendrobieae), a new species from Kachin State, Myanmar by Qiang Liu, Shi-Shun Zhou, Xiao-Hua Jin, Bo Pan, Kyaw Win Maung, Myint Zyaw, Ren Li, Rui-Chang Quan, Yun-Hong Tan

“…Dendrobium naungmungense, a new species from Naungmung, Kachin State, North Myanmar, is described and illustrated. …”
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Premna bhamoensis (Lamiaceae, Premnoideae), a new species from Kachin State, northeastern Myanmar by Yunhong Tan, Derong Li, Yongjun Chen, Bo Li

“…Moreover, literature survey and specimen examinations also indicated that P. bhamoensis is undoubtedly different from all seven known congenetic species recorded from Kachin State, Myanmar, and a key for their identification has been provided in this paper.…”
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Hedychium putaoense (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Putao, Kachin State, Northern Myanmar by Hong-Bo Ding, Yang Bin, Shi-Shun Zhou, Ren Li, Mya Bhone Maw, Win Maung Kyaw, Yun-Hong Tan

“…Ding, a new species of Zingiberaceae from Putao, Kachin state, Northern Myanmar, is described and illustrated. …”
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Corrigenda: Premna bhamoensis (Lamiaceae, Premnoideae), a new species from Kachin State, northeastern Myanmar by Yunhong Tan, Derong Li, Yongjun Chen, Bo Li

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Mental health and psychosocial problems among conflict-affected children in Kachin State, Myanmar: a qualitative study by Catherine Lee, Amanda J. Nguyen, Tara Russell, Yasmina Aules, Paul Bolton

“…Abstract Background In Kachin State, Myanmar, collapse of a ceasefire in 2011 has resulted in widespread exposure to conflict and ongoing internal displacement. …”
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Comparison of chloroquine, sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, mefloquine and mefloquine-artesunate for the treatment of falciparum malaria in Kachin State, North Myanmar. by Smithuis, F, Shahmanesh, M, Kyaw, M, Savran, O, Lwin, S, White, N

“…In Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam the national protocols have changed largely to artesunate combined treatment regimens but elsewhere in East and South Asia chloroquine (CQ) and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) are still widely recommended by national malaria control programmes. In Kachin State, northern Myanmar, an area of low seasonal malaria transmission, the efficacy of CQ (25 mg base/kg) and SP (1.25/25 mg/kg), the nationally recommended treatments at the time, were compared with mefloquine alone (M; 15 mg base/kg) and mefloquine combined with artesunate (MA; 15:4 mg/kg). …”

Burmese Amber Fossils, Mining, Sales and Profits by George Poinar, Sieghard Ellenberger

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From Fluidity to Discretization… and Fractal Recursivity? Opportunities and Challenges Underpinning the Introduction of Minority Languages in Kachin State’s government schools (2011-2020) by Nicolas Salem-Gervais, Ja Seng

“…In Myanmar, the 2011-2020 period—before the February 2021 military coup—has witnessed limited but steadily increasing momentum in terms of introducing ethnic minority languages (as subjects and oral media of instruction) in government schools, a shift liable to bring significant educational and political benefits, while contributing to the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity. Focusing on Kachin State, this article deals with the underlying challenges and inherent tradeoffs of producing a list of languages (as opposed to mere dialects) to be introduced in formal education. …”
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The effect of different types of migration on symptoms of anxiety or depression and experience of violence among people who use or inject drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar by Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Lucy Platt, Murdo Bijl, Sujit D. Rathod, Aung Yu Naing, Bayard Roberts

“…We estimated the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety or depression and experience of emotional or physical violence among PWUD in Kachin State in Myanmar and examined their association with structural determinants, focusing on types of past migration (migration for any reason, economic or forced displacement). …”
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Status and distribution of hoolock gibbon in the newly established Indawgyi Biosphere Reserve: Implication for protected area management by Ngwe Lwin, Dusit Ngoprasert, Niti Sukumal, Stephen Browne, Tommaso Savini

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Perrottetia taronensis B.M.Barthol. & K.Armstr., sp. nov. (Dipentodontaceae), a new species from northwestern Yunnan Province, China and northern Kachin State, Myanmar and a re-examination of the Asian and Australasian taxa of Perrottetia by Bruce Bartholomew, Kate E. Armstrong, Rong Li, Peter W. Fritsch

“…Perrottetia taronensis from the Dulong Jiang valley in northwestern Yunnan Province, China and the Babulongtan mountain range in northern Kachin State, Myanmar is here described as a new species of the Dipentodontaceae. …”
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Some recent evidence of the presence of the Critically Endangered Gyps vulture populations in northern Shan State, Myanmar by Sai Sein Lin Oo, Nang Lao Kham, Kyaw Myo Naing, Swen C. Renner

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Determinants of opioid use among adult males in Myanmar: A case-control study by Ye Htut Oo, Wongsa Laohasiriwong

“…Objectives: The present study aimed to identify the determinants of opioid use among adult males in Kachin State, Myanmar. Methods: This case–control study was conducted in Myitkyina city of Kachin State in August 2019. …”
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The rediscovery of the Common Water Monitor Lizard Varanus salvator (Squamata: Varanidae) in northern Myanmar by Sai Sein Lin Oo, Paul Jeremy James Bates

“…<p class="p1">On 09 June 2015, a Common Water Monitor <em>Varanus salvator </em>(Laurenti, 1768) was observed and photographed (Image 1) on the campus of Banmaw University, Banmaw (Bhamo), Kachin State, Myanmar (24⁰18’15”N &amp; 97⁰15’52”E).  …”
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On a new species of freshwater crab, Indochinamon khinpyae, from northern Myanmar (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae) by Peter K. L. Ng, Win Mar

“…A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Indochinamon Yeo &amp;amp; Ng, 2007 (family Potamidae), is described from highlands north of Myitkyina in Kachin State, Myanmar. Indochinamon khinpyae sp. n. is distinguished from congeners by its very rugose carapace, broad male pleon and distinctively structured male first gonopod; and is the first potamid species recorded from northern Myanmar.…”
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Coelogyne putaoensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Myanmar by Ye Lwin Aung, Xiaohua Jin, André Schuiteman

“…Coelogyne putaoensis, a new species of section Ocellatae from Putao, Kachin State, Myanmar, is described and illustrated. …”
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Gaps in Hepatitis B Vaccination Completion and Sero-Protection for People Who Inject Drugs in Hpakant, Myanmar, 2015–2018 by Nilar Shwe Yee, Aung Yu Naing, Julita Gil Cuesta, Mrinalini Das, Kapilkumar Dave

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Notes on the distribution of Ligularia kingiana (W. W. Sm.) Hand.-Mazz. (Asteraceae): new records by Ирина Дмитриевна Илларионова, С. Дэй, Моаакум

“…The study of herbarium materials and literature revealed that this rare species also occurs in eastern Nepal (Solukhumbu District) and northern Myanmar (Kachin State). For Nepal, L. kingiana is reported for the first time.…”
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A new lineage of braconid wasps in Burmese Cenomanian amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) by Michael S. Engel, Diying Huang, Chenyang Cai, Abdulaziz Alqarni

“…A new braconid wasp from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of the Hukawng Valley in Kachin State, Myanmar is described and figured from a unique female. …”
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Two new species of Alseodaphnopsis (Lauraceae) from southwestern China and northern Myanmar: evidence from morphological and molecular analyses by Lang Li, Yun-Hong Tan, Hong-Hu Meng, Hui Ma, Jie Li

“…Alseodaphnopsis maguanensis and A. putaoensis, two new species of Alseodaphnopsis (Lauraceae) from southwestern China (Yunnan Province) and northern Myanmar (Kachin State), are here described and illustrated based on both morphological and molecular evidence. …”
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