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  • Regime privatizing to retain control of resources

     The Irrawaddy

    As Burma gears up for elections to be held sometime later this year, the country's military junta is moving ahead with plans to transfer ownership of key industries to business firms ...

  • Tay Za Granted Electricity Contract

    The Irrawaddy

    The Htoo Trading Co Lt, listed on the US sanctions list and owned by Tay Za, a business crony of senior Burmese generals, and others have been awarded a contract to build, operate and tra...

  • Myanmar's electric power generating capacity reaches 2,256 mw

    YANGON(Xinhua via COMTEX)

    The total electric power generating capacity in the power grid system of Myanmar has reached 2,255.9 megawatts (mw) including the 1,726.8 mw added over the past 21 years, the ...

  • Kachin Villagers Resist Order to Relocate

    The Irrawaddy

    Efforts by Burmese authorities to persuade the first of about 15,000 affected Kachin villagers to move to new homes to make way for a ...

  • Constructing houses for residents to be expelled from the Irrawaddy dam site

    Kachin News Group

    Burma’s ruling junta is constructing new houses for residents who will be expelled from the Myitsone dam project site on the Irrawaddy River, in Burma’s northern Kachin State, at ...

  • First 500 households await relocation from Irrawaddy dam site

    Kachin News Group

    Relocation has been ordered for the first 500 households in the Myitsone dam project site in Irrawaddy River in Burma’s northern Kachin State during the inaugural ceremony for construction on D...

  • Villagers Ordered to Attend Kachin Dam Opening

    The Irrawaddy

    Hundreds of local villagers were pressed to attend the opening of the Myitsone hydro power dam in Kachin State on Monday.  It's construction on the Irrawaddy River was widely opposed by ...

  • CPI's Myitsone hydropower project in Irrawaddy River, Myanmar start construction

    Ministry of Commerce, China

    On 21 December 2009, China Power Investment Group (CPI) held a grand ground-breaking ceremony for the former stages of the construction of Myitsone hydropower station in Myanmar's Irraw...

  • Inauguration of dam construction marred by anti-dam posters

    Kachin News Group  

    Construction of the dam at the confluence of the Irrawaddy River, which is a tourist spot, was inaugurated today at noon in Burma’s northern Kachin State ...
  • Inaugural ceremony for dam construction on December 28

    Kachin News Group 
    The inaugural ceremony for construction of dams on the Irrawaddy River confluence in Burma’s northern Kachin State will be held on December 28 by the junta, said local sourc...
  • Gold mining precedes dam construction on Irrawaddy River

    Kachin News Group

    Gold mining activity has begun in areas to be flooded by the dam on Burma’s famous Irrawaddy River confluence in Kachin State before the contentious dam construction starts, said lo...

  • Green signal from junta for gold mining at Irrawaddy site

    Kachin News Group

    Mining for gold at the predicted flood zones of the Myitsone dam project in Irrawaddy River in Burma’s northern Kachin State, has been given the go ahead by the military junta, said local sourc...

  • Looking for the Switch to Light Up Burma’s Cities

    The Irrawaddy

    Efforts by Burma’s military regime to improve the country’s unreliable electricity supply ahead of promised national elections next year face big hurdles.

    ...
  • Move to build a 600 megawatt dam in Mon State

    Matichon Daily

    According to the Vice-President of Chamber of Commerce in Prachuab Khirikhan, Mr. Chote Chotiyakorn, delivery of heavy equipment has been going on for the construction of a hydropower dam in Tanao S...

  • Abhisit cool to opponents of Salween River dam plan

    Bangkok Post

    Environmental and human rights activists and villagers hold placards slamming the controversial Hutgyi dam project on the Salween River in Burma during a rally outside Government House yesterday. The ...

  • Thai activists demand pull-out from Myanmar dam project

    DPA

    Bangkok - Thai civil society leaders representing 189 organizations demanded Monday the government withdraw from the controversial Hutgyi dam project in Myanmar or face dire consequences. The group...

  • Burma to commission 'Ye' hydro-power project in December

    Mizzima News

    The Burmese Ministry of Electric Power (1) will commission the Ye village hydro-power project in December, billed as the biggest in the country.

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  • Myanmar biggest hydropower plant to be put on test run

    Xinhua

    The construction of Myanmar's biggest hydropower plant, Yeywa, is nearing completion and the test run on one of the turbines of the plant will be launched during next month, the local weekly Voi...

  • Hundred elephants to pull logs for the Irrawaddy dam contractor

    Kachin News Group

    A hundred elephants have been requisitioned to pull logs from the forests near the hydropower project site on the Irrawaddy River to the log camps, by Burma-Asia World Comp...

  • Kachin against Irrawaddy Dam Project

    The Irrawaddy

    If there is one confluence of the Irrawaddy River that is famous throughout Burma, it is the Mali and N’Mai rivers, located 27 miles from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state. 

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