A major event in the tourism calendar of Rajasthan and therefore held every year in December during the peak tourist season is the Jaipur Jewellery Show (JJS). Since Jaipur is one of the world’s ...

BANGKOK -- Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Burma as a way to exert pressure on Burma's military leaders by limiting profits from the country's ...

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 ...

Do you know that the world's largest rubies, sapphires and other invaluable gems are all available directly on the Internet? You can buy the Raviratna, world's largest star ruby cut like a cabochon on ...

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 ...

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 ...

"If you look at a top-quality, gem quality ruby versus the top quality of a diamond – let's say they're five carats each – the ruby is going to be much rarer and much more expensive than that ...