In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar

ENN
May 20, 2022, 5:53 pm230 pts
In a village in Kachin State, Myanmar, bordering China’s Yunnan province, a day laborer named Naw had earned just enough in the sugarcane and cornfields to feed his family of six before pandemic-induced border closures left him struggling to find work.

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