Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing praised Donald Trump in a rare letter and compared his military’s coup to the US ...

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

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

Diplomats from Asia, the US, and Russia to push ‘all parties’ involved in the conflict to halt indiscriminate violence on ...

China wields rare earths leverage in Myanmar’s civil war You might not have heard of Kachin State in Myanmar, but the region, ...

GUANGZHOU -- In accordance with Chinese laws, China has indicted 21 key members of a telecom fraud crime group operating in northern Myanmar on various charges including fraud, operating casinos, ...

The majority of these minerals are sourced from the Kachin region, which has been embroiled in a civil war since the military ...

The Kachin Independence Organisation’s spokesperson made the claim amid reports that Gen. N’Ban La was under house arrest by ...

They’re shiny metals, can be hard to find and they’re essential to building high-tech equipment — from electric cars to fighter jets. “Rare earth metals” are dominated by one country: China. Once ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and China Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended separate meetings with their ASEAN counterparts ...

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

Why China's Ultimatum to Myanmar Rebels Threatens Global Supply of Heavy Rare Earths By Naw Betty Han, Devjyot Ghoshal, Shoon Naing and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) -The global supply of heavy rare ...