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    Over 200 Chinese and Burmese traders face prison for evading junta's jade tax

    At least 200 Chinese and Burmese jade traders and brokers recently arrested by junta security forces at locations in Mandalay were yesterday charged under the Myanmar Gemstone Law, local lawyers have said.  Two houses in Maha Aung Myay and Aung Myay Tharzan townships were stormed by security forces on Dec. 20, with Mandalay-based media outlets …

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    Only two bodies recovered 24 hours after Hpakant jade pit disaster: over 100 feared dead.

    Rescuers leading search and rescue operations at the site of yesterday’s landslide in a Hpakant jade pit say they have only managed to recover two bodies from the rubble. Close by, four further corpses have been retrieved from the site of another landslide which hit on Dec. 18, said Ko Jack, a member of the …

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    Hundreds missing after second Hpakant jade pit landslide this week

    Hundreds of jade pickers are missing after a landslide occurred in a Hpakant mine this morning. The incident is the second mass casualty accident to occur in Burma’s jade capital this week after an incident on Dec. 18 also led to the death and disappearance of dozens of miners.  The junta had ordered mining operations …

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    Kani’s resistance forces scupper military jade ship with mine, kill over 100 in separate attacks

    A sinking military vessel has been forced to dock at Maedin village in Kani township, Sagaing, after Kani-PDF and forces allied to it spent five days attacking a fleet of 11 boats which had been carrying jade from the Myanmar Gems Enterprise (MGE), a spokesperson of Kani-PDF (KLG) told DVB.  The fleet had being traveling …

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    The jade scramble: Life at the bottom of the mines

    Three years since the jade trade was revealed to be worth 31 billion dollars, questions still abound about what improvements have been made by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government to share these revenues.

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    Collapse at jade mine kills at least 17

    A landslide at a jade mine in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township over the weekend has claimed at least 17 lives and injured dozens of others, with many more feared dead as search and rescue efforts continue.

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