A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...

Fighting in Myanmar's Bhamo disrupts rare earth mining. Kachin Independence Army battles the junta for control. Bhamo is ...

The battle for control in northern Myanmar involves a strategic fight over rare earths, critical for global technology. The Kachin Independence Army clashes with the junta, influenced by Chinese ...

Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

Myanmar is the world's leading producer of jade. Up to 90 percent of global supply of the precious stone is mined in the ...

Kachin state hosts the largest jade deposits in the world according to geologists. Myanmar also has a huge and loosely-regulated mining sector for gold, rubies and rare earth minerals which has ...

As of June 2, over 232,900 people were residing in camps in Kachin state, including 149,000 individuals displaced by the 2021 military coup. Fighting has troubled this mountainous northern region ...

More than 20 junta soldiers, including a battalion major, were killed in heavy fighting in Hpakant Township, Kachin State, on Tuesday resistance sources said. Two clashes broke out between the Myanmar ...

Myanmar’s military regime has ramped up its counteroffensive in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, targeting rare earth and jade hubs controlled by the ethnic Kachin Independence Army (KIA). KIA ...