Burma’s northernmost state is home to 1.2 million people and some of the country’s most intractable problems — including a rapacious jade mining culture, opium cultivation, environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In Myanmar's far north, more than 100 people were killed on Nov. 21 in a jade mine landslide. Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA TODAY app Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

Before a new government takes office in 2016, miners, including Chinese firms, have been rushing to excavate jade. Before a new government takes office in 2016, miners, ...

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 ...

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 blame on the ...

Community leader estimates between 100 and 200 people are also missing in Kachin state community of Hpakant ...

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 ...