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Hundreds missing after second Hpakant jade pit landslide this week
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Hundreds of jade pickers are missing after a landslide occurred in a Hpakant mine this morning. The incident is the second mass casualty accident...
The jade scramble: Life at the bottom of the mines
Three years since the jade trade was revealed to be worth 31 billion dollars, questions still abound about what improvements have been made by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government to share these revenues.
Jade mine slag heap collapses, killing at least 14
A jade mine slag heap collapsed in northern Burma on Friday, killing at least 14 people, rescue officials said, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the largely unregulated gems industry.
Calls for action after Burmese land rights activist beaten to death
Activists want a thorough investigation into the killing of a land rights activist in Burma, and greater protection of land defenders, amid a sharp increase in territorial disputes.
Screening of film on jade trade’s ills blocked in Rangoon
An international corruption watchdog was barred Wednesday from officially launching a short film that asserts both the military and armed ethnic militias remain complicit...
2 killed, 11 injured in Hpakant jade mine landslide
Two freelance pickers were buried under a landslide of excavated soil as they sifted for scraps of jade.
