Numerous migrant jade prospectors continue to search slag stacks for pieces of the valuable gems amidst unsafe conditions throughout the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining location, despite a deadly mudslide that eliminated approximately 200 scavengers in early July. Heavy rains set off the collapse of big stacks of muddy waste referred to as tailings […]

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A team selected by the Myanmar federal government to penetrate a huge landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has actually started its examination into the fatal mishap that eliminated a minimum of 172 people, a Kachin state official stated Tuesday. Heavy rains triggered stacks of loose dirt and debris to collapse on July […]

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A huge landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar Thursday buried more than 200 scavengers, eliminating at least 162 and hurting at least 54 others, rescue volunteers stated, in the current catastrophe in a market pestered by corruption and absence of federal government oversight. Heavy rains brought little mountains stacks of loose dirt and […]

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Myanmar’s government on Tuesday declined a Shan state member of parliament’s proposition to shutter a Chinese-owned coal-fired power plant homeowners of his area state has actually surpassed land usage specs, badly contaminated the regional environment, and endangered their health and incomes. Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) party legislator Sai Tun Aye proposed the motion […]

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Cross-border freight policies put in location by China in action to the spread of the coronavirus are pinching Myanmar traders and truck drivers, who have actually voiced issue about the safety of their freight and charges enforced by the Chinese, authorities at Myanmar trade associations stated Friday. Chinese authorities have actually limited their drivers from […]

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Internally displaced civilians who left war in northern Myanmar are not hearkening federal government orders and lockdowns to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, with hundreds continuing to work outside their camps so they can earn earnings to purchase food in the middle of lacks of humanitarian help, camp and federal government authorities stated Tuesday. […]

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Thai cops apprehended and later on launched 300 migrant workers as they headed to the border to return home to Myanmar on Thursday amid the spread of the extremely infectious coronavirus, part of an exodus covering throughout Southeast Asia as factories in Thailand that depend on foreign labor shut down, a labor activist, an embassy […]

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The coronavirus pandemic is leaving lots of workers in Vietnam and Laos jobless as organisations have actually been closed down to avoid the spread of the lethal infection, while Myanmar has a hard time to handle great deals of returning migrant workers who lost their tasks in surrounding Thailand and China. Southeast Asia had actually […]

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High school graduates in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state saw their potential customers for college and excellent tasks vanish when equipped conflict in between federal government forces and a rebel ethnic army resumed about 9 years earlier. Looking for autonomy for the northern most state on Myanmar’s borders with China and India, Kachin insurgents had actually […]

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Five Myanmar villagers each were sentenced to five years in jail on Friday on charges of damaging a factory structure and vehicles throughout a protest versus a Chinese-backed coal-powered cement factory in Mandalay area, a legal representative for the accuseds stated. Homeowners of Aungthabyae town in Patheingyi area encountered authorities and those in charge of […]

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