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Mizzima The government of Thailand has explained to its people on June 8 the benefit which will accrue to Thailand from the Salween Hat Gyi Dam.
The IrrawaddyA Chinese state-owned company is pressing ahead with a project to build a large dam on the Salween River in Burma—after the Beijing government ordered a halt to similar projects along the same river in China.
China Daily
Concerns about potential ecological damage from dam-building projects on the Nujiang River are being mulled, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Times Online (UK)
The Prime Minister of China has ordered a halt to construction of ahydroelectric plant on ...
Xinhua
China said Thursday that its hydropower development on transnational rivers is subject toecological and ...
 South China Morning Post
Premier Wen Jiabao has pulled the plug on a controversial project tobuild a dam on one of China's last free-flowing rivers in Yunnan ,calling for more careful environmental assessment...
The Nation
In the future, Thailand should buy more power from abroad in order to reduce its reliance on imported natural gas to generate electricity, former energy minister Piyasvasti Amranand said yesterday.
MILLIONS in the Southeast Asian region's trans-boundary river basins are facing the devastating affects from planned hydropower development.
Voice of AmericaNew Delhi
Asia is grappling with how to balance its burgeoning demand for energy against protection of the environment and society. The conflict is apparent in some of the region'...
Bangkok Post
Villagers affected by dam construction called on the government to stop building more dams on domestic and international rivers on the International Day of Action Against Dams yesterday.
Democratic Voice of Burma
Security has been tightened in Mon state capital, Moulmein, after high school students threw rocks at the state-run Electric Power Corporation last Friday, demanding full electricity while they sit thei...
 Independent Mon News Agency
At least one hundred students in Moulmein staged a protest to complain about lack of electricity on Friday. Electricity was restored the next day, say local sources, while the owners of student host...
The Burma Rivers Network is pleased to announce a new website www.burmariversnetwork.org. This is the first-ever website to compile information about large dams being constructed on Burma’s...
The Nation (Thailand)
The Electricity Authority of Thailand targets early next year to set up the joint venture to develop the Hatgyi dam construction project on the Salween River of Burma.
The Irrawaddy Online
Thousands of people are set to lose their homes and a fragile ecosystem is now under threat due to construction under way of river dams in Burma’s northern Kachin State.
China News Service and Yunnan Daily News
On 4th December, 10:10 p.m., China's biggest hydropower BOT (Build- Operate-Transfer) project in Myanmar, Shweli 1 Hydropower Station's No. 2 generating turbine officially started operatio...
New Delhi (Mizzima)
Despite protests by local residents and environmental groups regarding the negative side effects that would befall the local community, Burma's military authorities and a Chinese corporation have begun constr...
