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  • Karen Refugees Forced to Return

    The Irrawaddy

    Human Rights Watch has criticized Thailand authorities for returning more than 50 Karen refugees to a conflict zone in Karen State in eastern Burma.

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  • Dam Projects Threaten Cyclone-hindering Mangroves

    The Irrawaddy Online

    Burmese government officials involved in post-cyclone repair work have
    reportedly ordered replanting and expansion of mangrove forests in
    coastal areas of the Irrawaddy delta.

    The move ...
  • Chinese contractors formed Salween River Basin Hydropower Development Joint Working Group

    China Southern Power Grid

    In order to implement the tasks under the "Framework Agreement on Myanmar's Salween River Basin Hydropower Development Strategic Cooperation", the China Southern Power Grid Company, Sinohydro Corporation...

  • People interested in private electric supply

    Independent Mon News Agency

    Starved of energy needs, people in southern Burma favour electricity supply from private power distributing agencies given the delay in the government setting up power lines in the area.

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  • Ethnic Minorities in Southwestern China Threatened by Hydro

    Probe International
    PRESS RELEASE - July 8, 2008

    A group of Lisu minority youth have appealed to the United Nations' World Heritage Committee to help save southwestern China's Nu river from hydropower development.

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