It is mined in Central America and Myanmar, the source of the world’s most valuable specimens, including the prized variety known as “imperial jade” because, in China, only the emperor could ...

The junta-controlled holding company Myanma Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) is reportedly leasing land to be used in ...

Myanmar was a key global site for criminal activity well before the 2021 military coup. Today, illicit industry, especially ...

gem and jade mines, and rare earth deposits in Shan and Kachin states, as well as parts of central Myanmar. In an effort to cut off funding to resistance forces, the junta has ordered workers in mines ...

Some of the junta’s financial channels, such as revenue from the jade mining industry, are out of reach for sanctions. In 2021, the US treasury department sanctioned Myanmar’s state-owned ...

History suggests that resistance will not end when the military falls. It will only end when real systemic justice is achieved.

BEIJING, March 20 (APP): At the Beijing International Jewelry Fair, the Burmese rubies, Kashmir sapphires, Colombian emeralds ...

Karen BGF chief discusses his life in an exclusive interview at his opulent home in the alleged city of scams and human ...

"You ask me what the exhibition has brought us? Actually, I do not need to say anything, this is the answer," said Muzaffar Ahmed Bhat, a jewellery and handicraft trader from Tehran, excitedly, ...

The $22.8 billion CK Hutchison ports deal intensifies geopolitical tensions between the US and China. Chinese media has ...

Lawrence Njoroge flew out of Kenya to Thailand, where he had been told he would secure a supermarket job. He later found out ...