Pressure on Kachin Rare Earth Mines: What's Happening in Myanmar

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Myanmar (burma)

Authors:

Emily Fishbein
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

Hpan Ja Brang
Guest Contributor

A rare earth mining site in the Pangwa area, Myanmar, seen in June.

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Myanmar’s rare earth mining industry is lucrative, but it lacks regulatory safeguards.

Emily Fishbein
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

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This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar: the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) pushed firmly on the defensive, the Arakan Army permits Starlink registrations in war-torn Rakhine State, and we discuss the Kachin Independence Army's (KIA’s) resumption of rare earth mining around Pangwa. The following episode "Pressure on Kachin Rare Earth Mines" features Emily Fishbein, a freelance journalist currently serving as a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network fellow, and Hpan Ja Brang, a social justice activist and freelance journalist from Kachinland.

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