A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...

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

China does not actually want the Myanmar civil war to end, but wants the fighting to be reduced to levels where its economic ...

Nearly half the world’s supply of heavy rare earths is extracted from mines in Kachin state. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Armed roups fighting Myanmar's military regime are losing the edge they had built up in the use of drones in the civil war ...

The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins economically, culturally and politically.

China, which has triggered global shortages with its controls on rare earth exports, is itself reliant on rare earth supplies from the small, war-torn country of Myanmar.

While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw materials from the war-torn Myanmar.