MYITKYINA, Burma — The jade tycoon of Burma lives behind stone walls and a sophisticated security system. A visitor must be buzzed through a gate into the garden, pass a hunk of jade as big as a ...

A landslide near a jade mine in northern Burma has killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging for scraps in a towering mountain of displaced earth, witnesses said. Many more people ...

KACHIN STATE, BURMA—An ancient Chinese proverb likens jade to the character of men. As the saying goes, “both are sharpened by bitter tools.” But in the jade mines south of China’s border ...

“We have this rich natural resource but it is not helping the people at all,” Minzayar Oo, who made five trips to document Burma’s jade trade over two years, tells TIME. Kachin ...

A prominent Kachin jade miner and leader of the Peace-talk Creation Group told me in Myitkyina recently that, “there is no business [in Burma] where some family of the military is not involved.

Miners in Burma have found one of the world’s most valuable pieces of jade. The stone is valued at £140 million and was discovered in a remote mine in Kachin State, in the north of the country.

At least 90 people have died in a landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar (Burma), officials said Sunday, as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest ...

Miners recently unearthed a giant jade bolder in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The jade stone weighs 192 U.S. tons, one of the largest piece of jade found in the world.