Burrowing deep underground, thousands of informal miners risk their lives to find gleaming red gems as a law change spurs opportunity in Myanmar's "land of rubies". The Mogok rubies are the most ...

Georgia Faye Seamster was born just after midnight on Jan. 1 at 12:03 a.m., weighing 5 pounds, 1 ounce, and measuring a little over 17 inches long. BANGKOK – The latest U.S. sanctions on Myanmar ...

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, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — 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 ...

Myanmar is also called Burma. But a successful boycott of what activists call "blood rubies" will prove difficult. More than 1,500 people from more than 20 countries registered for a gems auction that ...

YANGON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Gem traders in Myanmar, one of the world's biggest producers of precious stones, took in a record 1.08 billion euros ($1.44 billion) at a 13-day emporium last month, a ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- The rich red hue of Myanmar's prized rubies is a reminder to many gem dealers of the military government's bloody crackdown on democracy advocates, and talk of a boycott is ...

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