Every week Aye Min Htun prays he will find the ruby that changes his life, one of thousands of people scratching a living in Myanmar’s mines set to gain little from the end of US sanctions on the ...

MOGOK, Myanmar -- When the world hears about Mogok, it usually concerns some hefty ruby unearthed in the region and auctioned for millions of dollars -- the kind of discovery that has dominated news ...

Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Myanmar's northern city of Mogok on Saturday. They had gathered to show support for the formation of a National Unity Government on Friday, which ...

The publicly mandated National Unity Government (NUG) has declared for the second time in a week that it will attack the ...

MOGOK (Myanmar) — Every week Aye Min Htun prays he will find the ruby that changes his life, one of thousands of people scratching a living in Myanmar’s mines set to gain little from the end of US ...

MOGOK (Myanmar): Every week Aye Min Htun prays he will find the ruby that changes his life, one of thousands of people scratching a living in Myanmar’s mines set to gain little from the end of US ...

BANGKOK — Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, ...

Kyawthuite, a unique mineral, was discovered in Myanmar's Chaung-Gyi Valley in 2010 and recognized in 2015. The single known specimen, a reddish-orange gem, is housed at the Natural History Museum of ...

Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many other stones—polished by water, overlooked by miners seeking sapphires. But ...

One of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed opposition factions has agreed to a China-brokered withdrawal from a lucrative ruby mining hub, the group said on Wednesday. Myanmar has been mired in a ...

BANGKOK — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, ...