Emily Fishbein
@emilyfishbein11.bsky.social
Independent journalist focusing on Myanmar. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow 2025
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.
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In Myanmar, Illicit Rare Earth Mining Is Taking a Heavy Toll
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas ruled by ethnic armies. New reporting in Wa territory reveals the activity is da...
e360.yale.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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...
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...
In Myanmar, Illicit Rare Earth Mining Is Taking a Heavy Toll
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas ruled by ethnic armies. New reporting in Wa territory reveals the activity is da...
e360.yale.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/we-all-fe...
‘We all feel the music together’: Singers bridge differences across borders
As Chin people seek refuge from the Myanmar conflict in the Indian state of Mizoram, a common musical culture with the local Mizo population serves to ease tensions and bring the communities together.
www.frontiermyanmar.net
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Original story, with plenty of musical references and anecdotes, here.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/we-all-fe...
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/we-all-fe...
“As the military attempts to solidify power with a stage-managed election later this year, it is intensifying an already brutal campaign against pockets of resistance," writes Joe Freeman of @amnesty.org
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www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Myanmar: ‘Deadly attack’ on festival highlights paraglider threat to civilians
Responding to reports of an aerial attack by the Myanmar military that is said to have killed upwards of 20 civilians, including children, when multiple bombs were dropped from motorized paragliders, ...
www.amnesty.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“As the military attempts to solidify power with a stage-managed election later this year, it is intensifying an already brutal campaign against pockets of resistance," writes Joe Freeman of @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
...For Pakistan, it’s a chance to claim its mineral narrative and tie it to national pride and legacy. For the US, it’s a strategic move on the global chessboard of resource politics” - former Pakistani army general on a US-Pakistan critical minerals deal
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
‘Strategic handshake’: How Pakistan is wooing Trump with critical minerals
Minerals diplomacy opens doors, but questions linger over Pakistan’s capacity to benefit from the $500m deal.
www.aljazeera.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
...For Pakistan, it’s a chance to claim its mineral narrative and tie it to national pride and legacy. For the US, it’s a strategic move on the global chessboard of resource politics” - former Pakistani army general on a US-Pakistan critical minerals deal
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
“This is a strategic handshake wrapped in economic opportunity, resource diplomacy and symbolic recalibration...
“This isn’t just about rocks in the ground. It is about who controls the future’s building blocks... (2/3)
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“This isn’t just about rocks in the ground. It is about who controls the future’s building blocks... (2/3)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
‘Strategic handshake’: How Pakistan is wooing Trump with critical minerals
Minerals diplomacy opens doors, but questions linger over Pakistan’s capacity to benefit from the $500m deal.
www.aljazeera.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“This is a strategic handshake wrapped in economic opportunity, resource diplomacy and symbolic recalibration...
“This isn’t just about rocks in the ground. It is about who controls the future’s building blocks... (2/3)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
“This isn’t just about rocks in the ground. It is about who controls the future’s building blocks... (2/3)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...