It’s a rare jewelry auction these days where diamonds are not the most prestigious items for sale. This auction will break the trend as leading the sale is a Burmese no heat “pigeon’s blood” ruby and ...

A 25.59 carat "pigeon blood" ruby sold for a world record $30.33 million at auction in Geneva Tuesday while a rare pink diamond believed to have once belonged to Napoleon's niece fetched $15.9 million ...

A rare 10.05-carat ruby will be the lead item at Christie’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels sale on November 29. Known as the “Ratnaraj” (“King of Precious Stones” in Sanskrit), the auction house says it ...

For centuries, the Mogok valley in Myanmar (formerly Burma) was the world's foremost source for rubies. Hundreds of years ago, likely in China, the term 'pigeon's blood' was coined to describe the ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Leonard Joel has been busy building a reputation as the auction house of big-ticket jewels and million-dollar-plus diamonds. It ...

Burma is preparing for its semi-annual gem auction, a long-running event the usually generates millions of dollars for the military-run government. This year, however, critics of the government are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Myanmar’s military coup has not only drawn international condemnation from human rights groups and governments ...

The gem merchants of Bangkok display their glistening wares proudly - diamonds from Africa, sapphires from Sri Lanka and rubies, of course, from Burma. The red stones are prized for their purity and ...

The gems are second only to colored diamonds in value, but their troubled provenance has made them an anathema to many. By Nazanin Lankarani Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has long been a producer ...

They are the most expensive gems per carat on Earth - and Burma is blessed with an abundance of them. The trade in Burmese rubies is banned, but as a Live investigation discovers, the country's ...