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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 – A hospital says at least 13 people have been killed by a landslide of mining waste in northern Myanmar. The accident occurred late Thursday in Hpakant, the center of Myanmar's ...

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, ...