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Chinese jade merchants in Mandalay recount hotel buildings collapsing and recovery efforts after the devastating earthquake of March 28.
Myanmar's Kachin State is believed to hold up to 90% of the world's most valuable jade. Demand for it is growing in China, where the stone is considered sacred. But hunting for it is one of the ...
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 ...
At least 50 people died on Thursday after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar trapped workers under a mound of refuse, authorities said. The miners were collecting stones in the jade ...
A state of emergency has been declared in Myanmar and in Thailand, where the prime minister visited the scene of the construction site collapse. The specialist teams brought in for this complex ...
A pancake-style collapse of several buildings and houses has become a challenge for rescuers in earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. Officials said a pancake collapse means buildings have landed on other ...
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally.
Four days after a massive earthquake toppled buildings across Myanmar, isolated stories were ... Thailand to probe solitary Bangkok building collapse In neighboring Thailand, meanwhile, serious ...
Officials said a pancake collapse means buildings have landed ... the second-largest city in Myanmar. The death toll from the initial quake and a series of aftershocks has climbed to 2,719 ...