Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coup in Myanmar has given its military leaders free rein over a $31 billion jade industry, said a Global Witness report. Myanmar ...

A team of miners work in a jade mine. Some miners work alone while some like this young men here work by a team in a small plot land that is owned by their 'Lao-ban' (meaning 'Boss' in Chinese), ...

HPAKANT (Reuters) - Sut Seng Du says he turned over 100 bodies as he clawed through the mud in a heavy downpour last week, before he finally found his brother, one of 172 people buried alive in the ...

A jade mining journey comes to a successful close as the team reaches their goal and completes the search.

Naypyitaw, Myanmar-- More than 50 people are believed to have died in a mudslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, a lawmaker representing the area said Tuesday. Tin Soe said three bodies ...

"There were people stuck in the mud shouting for help but no one could help them," said one witness Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial viewpoint shows the winding Dease River along Highway 37, north of the community of Dease Lake, about 1,750 kilometres ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed a worker, in the fourth accident of its type in less than two months in the lucrative but dangerous industry. The ...

Hot on the heels of his 2015 documentary, “Jade Miners,” Taiwan-based Burmese helmer Midi Z (“Ice Poison,” “Poor Folk”) returns with the companion piece “City of Jade,” an absorbing and highly ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide of a mound of mining waste killed at least 14 people Friday morning in northern Myanmar’s jade mining region, a local official said. The accident near the Waikha mine also ...

BANGKOK — An overnight landslide at a jade mining area in northern Myanmar has killed at least a dozen people and left many others missing, according to a resident, rescuers and independent media on ...

A coup in Myanmar has given its military leaders free rein over a $31 billion jade industry, said a Global Witness report. Myanmar is estimated to produce 70% of the world's jade. The industry there ...