Nearly half of the world’s heavy rare earths come from Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Kachin State, where China maintains access ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

China does not actually want the Myanmar civil war to end, but wants the fighting to be reduced to levels where its economic ...

A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...

Twenty-one key figures of a group that had long been swindling Chinese nationals in northern Myanmar have been prosecuted, ...

The U.S. has sanctioned Myanmar's military junta and refused to acknowledge its rule, so Mr. Trump's personal letter to its ...

Peace talks In public, China has repeatedly called for de-escalation of the conflict in Myanmar. Announcing the temporary ceasefire on Thursday, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said ...

BANGKOK — An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to ...

China, Myanmar’s largest neighbor, maintained cozy relations with the previous junta for decades, even as Western countries cut off contact and imposed withering economic sanctions, ...

It is now using its dominance to shore up Myanmar's beleaguered junta, which China sees as a guarantor of its economic interests in its backyard.