A coup in Myanmar has given its military leaders free rein over a $31 billion jade industry, said a Global Witness report. Myanmar is estimated to produce 70% of the world's jade. The industry there ...

The bodies of 33 people have been recovered from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Burma and rescuers are searching for at least three people believed to be missing, a rescue official said ...

The bodies of jade scavengers who were killed in a landslide are covered in plastic and lined up at a hospital morgue Friday, May 4, 2018, in Hpakant, Kachine state in northern Myanmar. Hpakant is the ...

Naypyitaw, Myanmar-- More than 50 people are believed to have died in a mudslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, a lawmaker representing the area said Tuesday. Tin Soe said three bodies ...

"There were people stuck in the mud shouting for help but no one could help them," said one witness At least 162 people are dead in a mine collapse caused by a landslide in Myanmar, multiple outlets ...

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British Columbia isn't allowing any new jade mines to open in the northwest, and has set a five-year wind-down period for existing operations. A statement from the Ministry of Energy and Mines says ...

HPAKANT, Myanmar (AP) — At least 162 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the worst in a series of deadly accidents at such sites in recent years that critics ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide in northern Myanmar, the world’s largest source of jade, killed 15 miners and left at least 35 others missing, local residents said Tuesday. The accident occurred Monday ...

Hot on the heels of his 2015 documentary, “Jade Miners,” Taiwan-based Burmese helmer Midi Z (“Ice Poison,” “Poor Folk”) returns with the companion piece “City of Jade,” an absorbing and highly ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar — At least 54 jade miners in northern Myanmar were believed to be dead on Tuesday after a huge mound of tailings collapsed into an open-pit mine, burying workers and heavy equipment, ...