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Myanmar Times
FOREIGN investment in Myanmar hydropower is likely to soar in coming months as the government plans to sign a series of deals with neighbouring countries, an official from the Ministry of ElectricPower (1) sai...
IPS
BEIJING, May 23 - China is emerging as a new backer of massive dam projects around the globe, giving rise to fears for pristine natural resources and the cultural heritage of river peoples.
The Myanmar Times
A DECISION on whether one or two hydropower projects will be built on the upper Thanlwin River in Myanmar will be made when a feasibility report is completed in 2008, an official from the Ministry of Electric Po...
The Guardian
Spent tea leaves were etched into the raw blisters on his face when they found him. Villagers believe the urn of scalding tea the Burmese soldiers tipped over Mu Kay's head killed him. But the betel nut farmer, 57, m...
Chinaview.cn
DHAKA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh is considering bringing inhydro-electricity from Myanmar to cope with the country's prevailing power shortage, local daily The Financial Express reported Thursday.
Shanghai Daily
A Chinese firm will help military run Myanmar build seven hydro electric plants with combined power capacity likely to be the biggest in the Southeast Asian country, state media said Saturday.
Environment News Service (ENS)
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, May 9, 2007 - Scientists from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, INPE, have published a new study showing that large dams contribute to global warming by re...
Bangkok Post
Burma has committed to building more hydropower plants in an effort to increase electricity production, according to a report from Rangoon by the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
AFP
YANGON - A Chinese firm will help military-run Myanmar build seven hydro-electric plants with combined power capacity likely to be the biggest in the Southeast Asian country, state media said on Saturday.
Two construction workers and an official of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) were injured last night when attackers threw a bomb at a rented house near a dam construction site in Burma. The thr...
New Light of Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw, 4 May - Hydropower Project Implementation Department and China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) started construction of a hydropower plant on Chebwe Creek in Kachin State on 30 April.
Mizzima News
During the 40th annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank in Kyoto, Japan, activists will urge it to stop providing technical assistance to Burma through its Greater Mekong Subregion prog...
BBC
As China faces pressure to develop green energy sources, families in the path of construction are being forced to give up their homes. The BBC's James Reynolds travelled to the village of Gongtan, near the south-west city of ...
