A damning new report into the jade trade warns the precious stones are bringing misery and death to the people of Burma where it is mined. The multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by firms ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On July 28, 2003, President George Bush signed into law the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. This act bans the importation of any article that is ...

(Washington, DC, October 27, 2008) - Consumers should support a new US law banning Burmese gems by refusing to buy from jewelers unless they ensure their gems are not from Burma, Human Rights Watch ...

In Burma, at least 32 people have been reported dead after a massive landslide Sunday at a jade mine in the town of Hpakan. Several people are still missing, while heavy rains have hampered rescue ...

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 ...

MYITKYINA, Burma — The jade tycoon of Burma lives behind stone walls and a sophisticated security system. A visitor must be buzzed through a gate into the garden, pass a hunk of jade as big as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

KACHIN STATE, BURMA—An ancient Chinese proverb likens jade to the character of men. As the saying goes, “both are sharpened by bitter tools.” But in the jade mines south of China’s border — a ...

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 ...

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 ...