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Disclaimer: We only found out abut the translation after it went online and did not have a chance to input into the process. Therefore, we cannot vouch for its adherence to the original English version.
burma.irrawaddy.com/article/2025...

We wrote the article with a third journalist, who conducted ground reporting and chose to remain anonymous for security reasons. Read the original version, written for Yale Environment 360 with support from the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network, here:
e360.yale.edu/features/mya...

This reporting also reveals new information about the harmful health, safety and environmental impacts of rare earth mining in Myanmar, where Chinese companies operate the mines and transport the rare earth to China for processing.
e360.yale.edu/features/mya...

This article, is based on ground reporting in territory controlled by the UWSA, where rare earth mining is extremely secretive and few if any journalists had previously collected firsthand information. It found that the mining is expanding near the China border. (2/3) e360.yale.edu/features/mya...

Original story, with plenty of musical references and anecdotes, here.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/we-all-fe...