It indicates the ability to send an email. Myanmar's Kachin State is believed to hold up to 90% of the world's most valuable jade. Demand for it is growing in China, where the stone is considered ...

Myanmar’s jade mines may yield great wealth—but they leave a long trail of death. An exclusive report By Hannah Beech/Hpakant | Photographs by adam dean When the earth collapsed, as it does ...

Si Thu Phyo was scavenging for leftover gemstones when he felt the earth shake loose around him. The 21-year-old was hard at work in one of the world's largest jade mines, in Kachin State in ...

At least 162 bodies have been found after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, officials say. Rescue work has continued all day for people still missing at the site in the ...

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...

BANGKOK--The military takeover in Myanmar has given the junta full control of the country’s lucrative and conflict-ridden jade mining, providing it with profits and leverage for consolidating ...

Myanmar’s military and ethnic armies are waging a war for control over the country’s natural resources – and the enormous profits that come with them. An important report by an environmental ...

An important report by an environmental watchdog sheds new light on the country's massive illegal gem industry.

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a dehumanising system of state-sponsored discrimination and racial segregation. This is apartheid – a crime against humanity as defined by international ...

PHNOM PENH--Caterpillar Inc., Komatsu Ltd. and Volvo AB--leading providers of machinery to Myanmar’s jade mines--have done little to address warnings about rampant abuses in the multibillion ...

But a new report out Wednesday shows that internet freedoms in China’s neighbor Myanmar are now just as lacking. The report from Freedom House, a US government-funded NGO, found that global ...