Low water level in Irrawaddy threatens commercial port
Mar 6, 2009 (DVB), One of upper Burma's busiest commercial ports is likely to be abandoned or moved to a new location due to drying up of the Irrawaddy river,[…]
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Burmese president awaits key report on Myitsone
A second report covering the Myitsone dam project on the Irrawaddy River will soon be submitted to the Burmese president for his consideration.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
Forestry Dept seizes 10 tons of timber from boat in Katha
The officials, based on a tipoff, searched the boat on the Irrawaddy River and found around 10 tons of timber in a hidden compartment.
Lead Story News Pegu Division Travel & Tourism
Historic Buddha carvings in dire need of restoration
The famous Akauktaung Buddha cliff carvings have overlooked the Irrawaddy River in Pegu Division for more than 150 years.
Business Weekly Lead Story News
BUSINESS WEEKLY 10 OCTOBER 2014
World Bank to loan US$100 million for Irrawaddy River basin; Burma, Israel sign bilateral trade agreement; Tourists from 67 countries now eligible for E-visas; Thai energy giant fires up coal power plant project
Kachin Land Lead Story Natural resources News
CPI cut our rice ration, say anti-dam activists
Two local Kachin women, who have been involved in anti-Myitsone dam activities, say they have had their rice rations cut by CPI, the Chinese backers of the Irrawaddy River hydropower project.
Environment Lead Story News Video
Swimming against the current
Activists in central Burma’s Prome swam across the Irrawaddy River in a demonstration calling for the complete suspension of the Myitsone hydroelectric dam project.
Monsoon floods continue to wreak havoc in Burma
One person drowned and more than 400 were evacuated to safety after severe flooding in Naypyidaw, while in Pegu about 150 villages were inundated when the Irrawaddy River burst its banks.
The battle over Yangon’s Dala bridge
Bridges over major rivers can transform local, as well as national, economies. But not everyone is in favour of building a $168 million bridge linking the congested downtown of Yangon with the poor and rural township of Dala to the south.
Renovated Bagan pagoda collapses
Listed only as Pagoda No 1066 and housing a Buddha statue, the structure measured 26 feet by 26 feet and was 40 feet high.
International Relations Kachin Lead Story News
China says it will keep talking to Burma over stalled Myitsone dam
China says it will continue to talk to Burma about the controversial, stalled Myitsone dam project, after Burma’s new energy minister cast doubt over the scheme.
Analysis Contributor Lead Story Opinion
Rethinking Burma’s waterways through Foucault’s biopolitics
Perspectives on Burma’s waterways have been polarised into two competing positions: focusing on developing its vast hydropower potential and advocating for local communities’ needs and concerns.
Crime Lead Story Mandalay Division News
Mandalay to expand CCTV coverage
The authorities in Mandalay are planning to install more CCTV cameras across the central Burma city as part of a plan to more effectively fight crime.
International Relations Lead Story Military News
Chinese navy ships in Rangoon for five-day visit
The two warships, the Xiangtan and the Zhoushan, were greeted by senior Burmese military officers, China’s ambassador to Burma, and Chinese students.
Foreign Affairs International Relations Lead Story News
Xi sees ‘splendid future’ for Burma as Suu Kyi ends China visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping says he wants to ensure that relations with Burma develop in the “correct direction”, as State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi returns from a four-day state visit.
Foreign Affairs International Relations Lead Story News
Suu Kyi seeks win-win deal on China-backed dam
Burma’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi told her Chinese hosts on Thursday that her government would try to find a way to resolve the Myitsone dam issue that satisfies both countries.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News
More than 170,000 affected by floods
More than 39,000 households in five states and divisions across Burma have been displaced by flooding so far this year, according to the Relief and Resettlement Department.
Lead Story Logging News Pegu Division
Pegu forestry officers open fire on logging trucks
Law enforcement officials in Pegu Division’s Kyauktaga Township open fire on trucks carrying illegal timber as they tried to run a checkpoint.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
Search intensifies for killers of forestry officer
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
Environment Feature Lead Story News Photos
U Bein Bridge: What lies beneath
At sunrise and sunset a rash of tourists swarm Ubein Bridge to take photos of the iconic teak bridge. But what you don’t see in most of the glossy guidebooks is the rubbish in the foreground.
Crime Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Pegu villages to get drought relief, thanks to Thingyan bribe
The money will make a small contribution to efforts to address the effects of a heatwave hitting large parts of the country.
Business Development Lead Story Natural resources News
Myitsone Dam has cost us $800m, says China
Naypyidaw is liable to pay compensation to the Chinese state-owned electricity giant if the project is permanently cancelled, Myanmar Times reports.
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics
INTERVIEW: Kachin MP Doi Bu
Doi Bu, joint-secretary of the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State, discusses her party’s plans for the upcoming general election in her home state.
Two dead as flood waters sweep Sagaing
As many as one hundred and fifty towns in lower Sagaing Division have been inundated, impacting as many as ten thousand people.
Environment Lead Story Logging News
China-Burma talks on illegal timber
In light of recent bust in Kachin state, officials meet to discuss the widespread illegal trade.
Feature Lead Story News Travel & Tourism
DVB’s Top 10 tips for visitors to Burma
You want to get off the “been there, done that” beaten track of Rangoon-Mandalay-Bagan-Inle-Ngapali? It’s time to discover those precious historical sites and natural wonders that are still unspoilt.
Burma’s growth rate set to hit 8.5 percent: World Bank
The World Bank estimates Burma’s economic growth rate at 8.5 percent for 2014 and 2015, a figure higher than any other nation it surveyed, including China.
Pegu farmlands flooded by dam overflow
More than 40 square kilometres of farmland in Pegu Division’s Thegon Township have been inundated by overflow from a nearby reservoir following heavy rain, according to locals.
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Burma Business Weekly
BUSINESS in BURMA THIS WEEK: China remains the country’s top trading partner; Myeik to Bangkok flights launch; Austria offers technical expertise on hydropower projects; and corruption in Burma still worries investors.
BUSINESS – Austria offers support on hydropower
Austria has pledged to provide Burma with technical support on hydropower generation, said Vienna’s visiting Transport, Innovation and Technology Minister Doris Bures upon signing MoUs with Burma’s Naypyidaw’s Electric Power[…]
