Myanmar's Jade Trade, A Lucrative But Deadly, HIV-ridden Industry

Myanmar is the world's primary source of top-grade jade, but the jade mining industry in the Southeast Asian nation remains mired in a humanitarian catastrophe two years after the reform government took over control -- tens of thousands of workers are exploited and heroin is abused on an unprecedented scale, creating the world's largest ... (more)

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