Hpakant (Burmese: ဖားကန့်, Burmese pronunciation:[pʰága̰ɰ̃]; Shan Language: ၽႃၵၢၼ်ႉ, also Hpakan and Phakant) is a town in Hpakant Township, Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar (Burma). It is located on the Uyu River 350 km north of Mandalay. It is famous for its jade mines which produce the world's best quality jadeite.[2][3]
^Census Report. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. Vol. 2. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 17. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^"Hpakan Other Rock Mine (Myanmar)". aditnow.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
^Richard W. Hughes; Fred Ward. "Heaven and Hell: The Quest for Jade in Upper Burma". Ruby-Sapphire.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
Hpakant (Burmese: ဖားကန့်, Burmese pronunciation: [pʰá ga̰ɰ̃]; Shan Language: ၽႃၵၢၼ်ႉ, also Hpakan and Phakant) is a town in Hpakant Township, Kachin State...
raids on Tatmadaw positions in Hpakant. During April 2024, the KIA launched attacks on Tatmadaw and SNA positions in Hpakant Township. They seized a base...
Hpakant Township (Burmese: ဖားကန့်မြို့နယ်; also Kamaing Township) is a township of Mohnyin District in Kachin State of northern Myanmar . The administrative...
products include gold, jade, and rare-earth elements.[citation needed] Hpakant is well known for its jade mines. Bhamo is one of the border trading points...
October 2022, the Myanmar Air Force launched a series of airstrikes in Hpakant Township, Kachin State, Northern Myanmar. The targeted area was within...
The 2023 Hpakant jade mine disaster occurred on August 13, 2023, when the Hpakant Jade Mines experienced the third documented landslide in the area. The...
(25 September 2012). "Displaced by fighting, villagers take shelter in Hpakant". Democratic Voice of Burma. Archived from the original on 27 November...
Chindwin river just below Homalin on the left. The famous jade mines at Hpakant lie in the headwaters of the Uyu. Myittha River drains the Kale valley...
In the early morning of July 28, 2019, a landslide in a Hpakant jade mine killed at least 17 people, leaving others missing and two injured. The people...
2 July 2020, a major landslide at the Wai Khar jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar, killed between 175 and 200 miners in the...
killed at least 116 people in the Hpakant jade mine disaster. In 2019, 50 workers were buried in the April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse, resulting in...
occurred before the anniversary of the Myanmar Air Force's airstrike in Hpakant that killed at least 80 civilians and other KIO officials and soldiers...
weeks of fighting between the KIA against the Myanmar military and SNA in Hpakant township. The detainees were subject to torture and starvation and some...
career, she has acted in over 40 films. Hsu was born on 22 March 1994 in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar to parents Tun Aung Kyi, a jade trader and his wife...
An Pe Dih Lo – THE CHINLAND POST". Retrieved 2024-02-18. "Kachin ram, Hpakant (Phakanh) sui khur cawhnak vawlei cimh ruang ah Chinmi minung 5 nunnak...
eventually filling a challenging role as parish priest in Hpakant, Myanmar. Daw Tang remained in Hpakant for a total of nine years, from 1993 to 2002, before...
National Democratic Force's Kachin State branch. She lives in Aungya village, Hpakant Township. She matriculated from Basic Education High School in Kyauktada...
60 km northeast of the capital Yangon. Unnamed mob 2 July 2016 Arson 0 0 Hpakant A mob burned down a mosque in northern Myanmar. Unnamed mob 4 July 2017...
least 174 people were killed in a landslide in the 2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster in the Hpakant area in Myanmar. December 1, 2020: At least 18 people...
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