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

China, which has a near-monopoly over the processing of heavy rare earths, has threatened to halt buying the minerals mined ...

By Naw Betty Han, Devjyot Ghoshal, Shoon Naing and Poppy McPherson(Reuters) -The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in ...

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

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

Nearly half the world’s supply of heavy rare earths is extracted from mines in Kachin state, including those north of Bhamo, ...

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

China has indicted 21 key members of a telecom fraud syndicate operating in northern Myanmar on multiple charges, including ...

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

Armed roups fighting Myanmar's military regime are losing the edge they had built up in the use of drones in the civil war ...

Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins economically, culturally and politically.