Myanmar's jade mines may yield great wealth — but they leave a long trail of death. An exclusive report When the earth collapsed, as it does nearly every day in the jade hills of Myanmar, Ye Min Naing ...

They died in a deluge of worthless stones flecked, perhaps, with green pebbles worth tiny fortunes. In Myanmar's far north, more than 100 people were killed on Nov. 21 in a jade mine landslide. By ...

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The bodies of 33 people have been recovered from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Burma and rescuers are searching for at least three people believed to be missing, a rescue official said ...

For the Chinese, jade’s luster represents good fortune, prosperity and longevity. For impoverished Burmese toiling in squalid mines, it represents escape, or at least the dream of it. The reality, as ...

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 as ...

When Aung San Suu Kyi met recently with her long-time nemesis, retired general Than Shwe, after her party’s stunning election victory in November 2015, it was heralded as a harbinger of a smooth ...

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 blame on ...

At least 90 people were killed in a landslide near a jade mine in northern Burma, also known as Myanmar, in the early hours of Saturday. The victims were reportedly searching through a pile of waste ...

When the earth collapsed, as it does nearly every day in the jade hills of Myanmar, Ye Min Naing was poised on a steep slope of rubble and scree. It was a rainy night six months ago, at the tail end ...