Bloomberg A landslide at a jade mining site in Myanmar has left 126 people dead with heavy rains forcing authorities to pause search and rescue efforts. The deceased were mostly small-time miners collecting stones at old mining sites in Hpakant town in northern Kachin state. They were buried by mud after heavy rains led to the collapse of a quarry, ...

Bloomberg Countries including Britain, Germany and Switzerland sought to allay concerns that they won’t have sufficient stocks of Gilead Sciences Inc’s remdesivir, one of two drugs shown to treat Covid-19, after the US forged a deal to snap up almost all the supplies for three months. The UK worked with Gilead in May to secure remdesivir in advance and has ...

Bloomberg China on Thursday warned of strong countermeasures if the US, Australia and the UK continued taking actions in response to Beijing’s tough national security law in Hong Kong, saying foreign pressure would “never succeed.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China “deplores and firmly opposes” the US House of Representatives’ unanimous passing of a bill that would level ...