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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide at a jade mining area in northern Myanmar has killed at least a dozen people and left many others missing, according to a resident, rescuers and independent media ...

Rescuers were searching through mud and rubble on Saturday after a new landslide buried workers -- possibly dozens -- in a remote jade mining region in northern Myanmar, the second such incident in ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a search and rescue operation was underway on Monday, a rescue official said. The incident ...

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 ...

People stand atop a ridge overlooking the scene of a mudslide at a jade gemstone mining site Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in Hpakant area of Kachin state, northern Myanmar. A lawmaker representing 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 ...

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This photo shows a jade mine area where a landslide accident took place in Hpakant township, Kachin state, Myanmar Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. A landslide at the jade mine left scores of people missing, ...