NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author Daniel Combs about his book Until the World Shatters, which explores the connection between Myanmar's jade industry and a long-running civil war.

The year-long investigation, titled Jade: Myanmar’s ‘Big State Secret’, ... The industry figures are a rare look into a secretive, off-the-books sector where no reliable data exists.

The vast majority of Myanmar’s jade trade is unrecorded and underground, which makes effective governance of the industry very difficult. Independent estimates of the trade’s value vary widely.

Armed factions raid mining zones and villages, plundering the nation's vast natural resources to fund war efforts.

A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 32 people, a local fire services official told CNN on Wednesday.

(CNN) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 32 people, a local fire services official told CNN on Wednesday.

BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide at a jade mining area in northern Myanmar has killed at least a dozen people and left many others missing, according to a resident, rescuers and independent ...

A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 32 people, a local fire services official told CNN on Wednesday.