a remote mountainous region at the center of the lucrative jade mining industry, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) north of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. It’s a region where sporadic fighting ...

Hpakant is a rough and remote area in Kachin state, 950 kilometers north of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. “The jade miners were smothered by a wave of mud,” the Fire Service said.

At least five people have been killed and 20 injured as police opened fire on hundreds trying to enter a jade mine in Myanmar, state media report. Fifty people tried to enter a privately-owned ...

Myanmar’s jade mines may yield great wealth—but they leave a long trail of death. An exclusive report By Hannah Beech/Hpakant | Photographs by adam dean When the earth collapsed, as it does ...

YANGON: (Bernama-Xinhua) A total of 22 bodies have been recovered as of Tuesday (Jan 14) from the collapse of a jade mine in northern Myanmar's Kachin state, a police official told Xinhua on ...