Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
BY Frontier
There are nearly half a million squatters living in and around Yangon, most of whom are unaffected by power blackouts because they have never been connected to the grid.
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