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Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Three dams slated to be constructed on the Salween River on the Thai-Myanmar border would create an "inland sea" that would cut off the Karen insurgency's supply route and block refugees from escaping into...
Worldwatch Institute
Since its founding in 1949, modern China has implemented hydropower as a priority strategy for its rapid economic development. In a country where the history of hydraulic innovation dates back to the 590s BCE...
New Light of Myanmar
The government has been implementing hydropower projects utilizing water resources available for power supply in the country.
South China Morning Post
Standing in front of his two-storey house smoking a pipe, the 76-year-old Xiaoshaba villager has yet to pull himself together two months after his eviction from the old riverside house, located about 1kmÂ...
AFP
Military-ruled Myanmar has recently signed off on a raft of energy deals with its power-hungry neighbours, winning the junta a desperately needed income stream. But Chinese and Thai dams to be built on Myanmar's rivers to pow...
Bangkok Post
A change is needed in Thailand's master plan for energy development, which has not yet committed to conservation and renewable energy alternatives, writes SUPARA JANCHITFAH.
AP
BANGKOK, Thailand --Tens of thousands of villagers could be displaced and a fragile ecosystem destroyed by a hydropower project being built on northeastern Myanmar's Salween River, an international conservation group said Thur...
Water Power Magazine
Myanmar has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chinese companies to build the Upper Thanlwin ('Salween') hydro scheme, and broken ground for the Tarhasan ('Tarjan') project on the same river.
WWF Newsroom
A deal signed between Thailand and Myanmar would clear the way for the first large-scale hydropower plant on the Salween River in north-eastern Myanmar. The project could displace and negatively impact upon tens of t...
The Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar has signed a memorandum of understanding with two Chinese firms to build a hydropower plant on the Thanlwin river in the northeast of the country, state media said Saturday. The agree...
Military-run Myanmar and China have signed a deal to build a hydropower dam on the Salween River, as yet the longest undammed waterway in southeast Asia, official media said Saturday. The deal is the fourth hydropower agreeme...
The New Light of Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw, 6 April - Minister for Electric Power No 1 Col Zaw Min received Vice President Mr Zheng Yuewen and party of All ChinaFederation of Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China at his office, ...
Construction of a hydroelectric power plant, which has attracted strong criticism from environmental groups, has begun on the Salween river in northeastern Burma, state media said Thursday. The Ta Sang hydroe...
