https://www.scmp.com/rss/506900/feed Aung Myat Lamung is an environmental justice and rights advocate from Myanmar's Kachin State. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When Kai Ring was 17, she and her sisters set out from their hometown of Myitkyina, the capital of Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin State, for the world’s largest jade mine, in Hpakant, 150km away. “When we arrived, there was no [industry] other than jade,” says Kai Ring. “We didn’t have capital to trade it, so we dug.” A lot has changed since her arrival in 1989. Over the decade that followed, Hpakant’s mines were taken over by Myanmar’s armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, and carved up into... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3097072/myanmars-largest-jade-mining-town-semi-precious?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3097072/myanmars-largest-jade-mining-town-semi-precious?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:05:32 +0000