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Yangon – Economic interests worth billions of dollars in infrastructural (for example, dams) and natural resource development are behind the virtual civil war between government forces and ethnic minorities in Kachin State (northern Myanmar)...
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Asia TimeBy Simon RoughneenBANGKOK - Myanmar's longest-standing ethnic minority militia, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), has forced a halt to the construction of a key roadway link to the US$8 billion Dawei port and industrial estate mega-proje...
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National GeographicAugust 2011Below is an excerpt from the article, to see in full as well as a photo gallery, please go to http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/08/burma/larmer-text/2Deep in the hills of northeastern Myanmar a young woman in a bamboo ha...
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www.shanland.orgReports emerged last week from Kachin and Shan States that rape is still being used as a tactic by the Burmese army to demoralise and terrorise ethnic communities
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Asia correspondent.comBy Francis Wade Jul 25, 2011 6:03PM UTCAt long last, the National Geographic has created visual proof of the ties that bind energy projects in Burma to mass displacement of populations: an area of waterways in remote Karen state litt...
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Mizzima Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Environment groups and local villagers in Burma and Thailand launched a protest against the Mong Koke coal-mining project in eastern Shan State last week.
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The Irrawaddy BANGKOK—Burmese environmentalists say that the dozens of foreign investment projects linked to Burma's natural resources are a driving force behind a recent increase in fighting between the Burmese army and ethnic armed groups in Burm...
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AFPEnvironmental groups called on Monday for an end to foreign investment in projects exploiting Myanmar's natural resources, accusing such activities of sparking conflict in ethnic minority areas.
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The IrrawaddyChinese businessmen are currently the richest in Burma—a fact that obviously doesn't sit well with the Burmese business community.In a recent interview with an Italian journalist, Tay Za, one of Burma’s US-sanctioned tycoons, complained t...
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Oil Price.comWritten by Joao Peixe  The hugely controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma, currently under construction by the China Power Investment Corporation, was the subject of a 2009 internal report by the company, which called for the project ...
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The IrrawaddyMYITKYINA, Kachin State—Myitsone, the confluence of Maykha and Malikha rivers around 46 km north of Myitkyina, is very important not only to the Kachin people, who consider it the birthplace of their culture, but also for the whole of Burma...
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Democratic Voice of BurmaAn internal report in 2009 by the China Power Investment Corporation, the company behind the hugely controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma, that called for the lucrative venture to be scrapped appears to have been ignored, w...
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Asian Sentinel China Power Investment’s assessment calls for Burma’s Myitsone Dam to be scrappedThe state-owned China Power Investment Corp. is continuing with the controversial Myitsone Dam on Burma’s Irrawaddy River despite its own 945-page enviro...
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VOAThe race for hydropower development among Mekong countries could lead to conflicts or even war over water, regional security experts say.
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Myanmar TimesIRRAWADDY dolphins are the subject of a documentary-in-progress by a young Myanmar filmmaker, who hopes that the hour-long video will help find solutions to the environmental problems faced by the endangered marine animals.
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The Irrawaddy After conducting an assessment, a group of Chinese and Burmese scientists working for the China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) recommended in an internal report that the company cancel its Myitsone Dam project on the Irrawaddy River in n...
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THE IRRAWADDYBurmese government troops have launched a large-scale attack including mortar shells against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) at the hydropower dam site in Momauk Township, Kachin State, northern Burma.
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PacNet (Center for Strategic and International Studies)Yun Sun [eve_sun79@hotmail.com] is foreign policy analyst in Washington DC and will be a visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. She was a Beijing...
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ACN News Trouble is brewing in Kachin State in northeast Burma. The local Kachin people are demanding greater self-determination and independence. Now the central junta has moved troop reinforcements into the region in order to disarm the Kachin people. R...
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Mizzima
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – After the general election in Thailand, some Burmese opposition members in Thailand are concerned about a shift in Thai government policy to favour the new Burmese government.
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