HPAKANT, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's newly elected government said on Tuesday it planned to tighten control over the country's poorly regulated jade mines after a landslide swept through a mining ...
YANGON (Reuters) - A jade mine slag heap collapsed in northern Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 14 people, rescue officials said, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the largely unregulated ...
Five Yay Ma Hsay -- or 'unwashed' as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known -- arrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, lured by the prospect of finding a ...