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    163 Search results for "Hpakant"

    Lead Story News

    Dyanmite explosions injure miners in Hpakant

    Locals from Kachin State say they are worried about their safety after a villager was injured by dynamite blasts in the Hpakant jade mines.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Over 2 billion kyats in illicit narcotics seized in Hpakant

    Police seize a stash of illicit narcotics worth 1.6 billion kyats ($1.17 million) and arrest two suspects at a checkpoint in Lel Pyin village, part of Kachin State’s Hpakant Township, with a follow-up search of the accused possessors’ property yielding an additional 700 million kyats in drugs.

    Lead Story Natural resources News

    Jade miner, 18, shot dead in Hpakant

    The fatal incident occurred after a crowd of freelance miners gathered at the site entrance to protest the temporary closure of the mine by its contractors.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Flooding subsides in Hpakant

    “A day before, the flooding has been about a metre to two metres in the streets,” said a local resident.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Hpakant residents band together in wake of murders

    Neighbourhood watch groups are formed in the lawless jade mining town following two murders in broad daylight.

    Crime Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News

    Pair of ethnic ‘Red Shan’ men shot dead in Hpakant

    An ethnic Tai-Leng, or “Red Shan,” schoolteacher was reportedly shot dead by unknown assailants on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the murder of a fellow Red Shan man in similar fashion, both in the Kachin State jade mining township of Hpakant.

    Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    2 killed, 11 injured in Hpakant jade mine landslide

    Two freelance pickers were buried under a landslide of excavated soil as they sifted for scraps of jade.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    2 killed in Hpakant jade mine landslide

    Two jade scavengers were killed and another injured at yet another deadly landslide at Hpakant’s mines.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Jade miner shot by soldier in Hpakant

    The victim of the shooting told DVB that the mining company previously had no issue with freelancers scavenging at its worksite, but things went sour on Saturday.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Army mouthpiece blames Hpakant fire on KIA

    Members of the Kachin Independence Army started a fire that destroyed a warehouse in Hpakant Township on Wednesday, according to Myawady News.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Hpakant fire destroys mining company warehouse

    No casualties were reported in a fire that did extensive damage to property owned by a mining company in Hpakant Township on Wednesday.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Hpakant’s jade foragers rally for mining rights

    The protestors issued a list of six points, including a demand to permit day-labourers forage freely through mounds of soil dumped by mining companies.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    210-ton slab of jade unearthed in Hpakant

    “Its weight was calculated at 210 tons upon discovery; however the top broke off during the excavation … that was about 40 tons worth.”

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    IDP injured by landmine in Hpakant

    According to an international watchdog, Burma is the third-worst country in the world for landmine casualties.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Schoolteacher wounded by artillery as clashes continue near Hpakant

    “Local residents informed us that stray artillery shells, apparently fired from a position in the cemetery outside of Namya, landed in the school compound, wounding the teacher.”

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    KIA, Burmese army clash near Hpakant

    A KIA spokesman says the Kachin militia engaged Burmese troops along the road between Kamaing and Hpakant on Monday morning after government forces had advanced on a position where the KIA’s 6th Battalion had dug in.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Thugs beat up Burman scavengers in Hpakant, says local NLD leader

    “They were tied to bamboo poles and tortured. And they were warned not to scavenge on a ‘Kachin’ site.”

    Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News

    Burma Army accuses KIA ‘operatives’ of Hpakant bombings

    A military mouthpiece claimed that three men allegedly working for the Kachin Independence Army confessed to carrying out a recent series of bomb attacks in Burma’s jade-mining region.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    At least 10 dead, dozens missing in latest Hpakant mine landslide

    The incident took place at a site that had been closed for the rainy season because of fears about the stability of its massive pile of mining waste.

    Crime Kachin Lead Story News

    Village official gunned down in Hpakant

    Nandar Hlaing, who was recently assigned to work as a village administrator in Hpakant Township, was shot and killed in front of her children on Sunday evening.

    Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    Concerns grow over Hpakant’s scarred landscape

    Villagers in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township feel threatened as whole mountains are turned into dangerous, unstable waste heaps.

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Latest Hpakant blasts linked to extortion demands

    The attack, on a company apparently targeted for refusing to give in to extortion demands from an armed group, left at least 10 vehicles damaged or destroyed.

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Hpakant rocked by explosions; one person injured

    No one has taken responsibility for at least eight separate bombing incidents in the jade-mining town of Hpakant on Sunday.

    Lead Story Natural Disasters Natural resources News

    At least 13 buried in latest Hpakant landslide

    Local officials say around 20 people may have been buried when a slag heap collapsed on Thursday evening.

    Stoical miners face death in Hpakant video

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video

    Stoical miners face death in Hpakant

    On this episode of DVB’s Doh Pyay Doh Myay Roadshow, the team visits Hpakant in southern Kachin State, where the hunt for Jade is intensifying as political change in Burma looms.

    Kachin Lead Story News Politics

    Deadly jade rush hastens in Hpakant

    Miners have been tearing into Burma’s northern hills in recent months, in a rush to excavate more jade from the world’s richest deposits of the gemstone before a new government takes office next year.

    Hpakant miners back at work after deadly landslide video

    Business Environment Lead Story News

    Hpakant miners back at work after deadly landslide

    Hpakant miners are continuing to risk their lives to find precious stones less than a week after a nearby landslide killed more than a hundred people.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    One soldier killed, four wounded in Hpakant grenade accident

    The troops belonged to a security detail protecting the incumbent Kachin State Chief Minister La John Ngan Hsai.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Death toll climbs in Hpakant mining disaster

    91 bodies have been pulled from a landslide near a jade mine in Kachin State and an estimated 100 people are still missing, an official told DVB on Sunday.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Hpakant villagers evacuated amid renewed fighting

    Residents from a number of villages in central Kachin State have been ordered by the Burmese army to evacuate the region, following clashes with Kachin rebels.

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