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.
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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.
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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.
Flooding subsides in Hpakant
“A day before, the flooding has been about a metre to two metres in the streets,” said a local resident.
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.
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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.
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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.
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2 killed in Hpakant jade mine landslide
Two jade scavengers were killed and another injured at yet another deadly landslide at Hpakant’s mines.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.”
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IDP injured by landmine in Hpakant
According to an international watchdog, Burma is the third-worst country in the world for landmine casualties.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
