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 at a jade mine in Burma led to dozens of deaths. Officials have recovered 33 bodies and are searching for three others who are believed to be missing.

Located in dense jungle hills, this jade mining town is a prime example of the nation's business climate. The northern town of 20,000 residents is connected to the outside world by a single ...

Searchers recover bodies after Burma landslide Though jade is Myanmar's natural bounty, its profits are hoarded by a few.

Burma’s total trade in jade is valued at £20bn with firms controlled by members of the former junta profiting, and there are fears that some of this money could influence next month’s general ...

Jade mainly goes from Burma to China, and China will certainly not stop buying it. Rubies, although prominent in Burma, can be mined in Sri Lanka or Madagascar or many other places.

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

In the months leading up to last year’s historic election in Burma, jade mining companies in the country’s remote north worked round the clock, furiously trying to bring in as much of the gem ...

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.

Stunned miners have unearthed the world's most valuable piece of jade - an 18ft monster worth £140million. Workers were excavating rare gems at a remote mine in Kachin State, Burma, when they ...

RANGOON, Burma— A landslide near a jade mine in northern Burma killed about 70 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers who had been sifting a mountain of tailings and waste ...

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 ...