Myanmar’s jade mines may yield great wealth—but they ... Where prospectors used to dig by hand, now explosives and heavy machinery, mostly imported U.S. or Chinese brands, are ripping the ...

The time on the dashboard showed 12:50 p.m., the moment on March 28 when Myanmar was struck by a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake. Ye, a 43-year-old jade merchant from China who lives in Mandalay, ...