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  • Activists Believe Thailand Continues Involvement With Salween Dam Projects

    Shan Herald Agency for News

    A report that Thailand is not looking to Burma for energy needs is receiving skeptical reactions from Salween Watch activists, who assert that companies from Thailand have already signed agreements wit...

  • Local Residents Oppose Dam on Irrawaddy Confluence

    The Irrawaddy Online

    Local residents in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, have recently urged the Burmese military government to stop its planned hydropower project o­n the Irrawaddy River confluence.

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  • Bangladesh Looks to World Bank and ADB for Burmese Hydropower Investments

    Energybangla.com

    Bangladesh is currently organizing to look for funds from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to set up a hydropower plant in Burma, in order to import power to Bangladesh through a cross-border transmissio...

  • Thailand Rejects 250 Karen Refugees

    Reuters.com

    Thailand has denied entry to 250 ethnic Karen refugees from Myanmar who said they had fled attacks by soldiers from the ruling military junta, Reuters witnesses and a refugee leader said on Thursday.

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  • Junta ignore pleas to stop Myitsone hydropower project

    Kachin News Group

    Burma's ruling military junta has not responded to demands by locals to put a stop the Myitsone Hydroelectric Power Project in Kachin State in northern Burma.

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  • Big, bad dams return to South-East Asia

    Economist.com

    TWO years ago the World Bank returned, after a decade’s absence, to the business of financing giant hydroelectric dams. This was in spite of a damning (pardon the pun) report in 2000 from the World Commission on D...

  • Bangladesh Looks to World Bank and ADB for Burmese Hydropower Investments

    EB Report

    Bangladesh is currently organizing to look for funds from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to set up a hydropower plant in Burma, in order to import power to Bangladesh through a cross-border transmission line,...

  • Salween River Activist Skeptical Despite Thai Assurances

    The Irrawaddy Online

    The current Thai government position o n Burmese plans to build a series of dams on the Salween River was no guarantee that human rights abuses connected with the projects would end, according to a leading en...

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