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    Arakan Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    Mud volcano erupts in Arakan

    A mud volcano in Kyaukphyu Township on the west coast of Burma has erupted, spilling tons of mud across three village tracts and destroying more than 100 acres of paddies fields. No one has been reported injured.

    Land Lead Story News Rangoon

    Villagers form petition to oppose Rangoon city project

    Rural villagers living west of Rangoon said they are forming a petition to protest plans to build an extensive residential and commercial development on 30,000 acres of land in their area.

    Lead Story News

    China inspects Burma’s rice in advance of trade agreement

    Chinese technicians arrived in Rangoon on Wednesday to kick-start implementation of rice-inspection protocols as the two countries move closer to reaching a trade agreement.

    Lead Story Natural resources News

    Shan farmers dissatisfied with dam relocation site

    Villagers in Paunglaung, located between Naypyidaw and Shan State, have said that a relocation project designed to make way for the Upper Paunglaung Dam is insufficient.

    Business Weekly Lead Story News

    Burma Business Weekly

    Chin SEZs, Thai banking, Shwedagon tourist boom and flights to the Philippines in this week’s Burma Business Weekly.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Drugs, land and mining issues plague Shan State

    A four-day regional development workshop responding to the challenges posed by drugs and environmental degradation has concluded in Shan State

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Sagaing farmers say insect infestation stipends were misappropriated

    Farmers in Ayadaw, Sagaing Division, said that authorities have unfairly disbursed agricultural stipends after insects ravaged the paddies of around 160 people.

    Summer beach boosts local businesses video

    Features Lead Story News Travel & Tourism Video

    Summer beach boosts local businesses

    Thousands of visitors from Rangoon and the Irrawaddy region head to Yankinthar beach to escape the summer heat – and it’s bringing unexpected job opportunities for the local farmers.

    Rural teachers push for educational reform video

    Feature Lead Story News Video

    Rural teachers push for educational reform

    As 70 percent of Burma’s population live in rural areas, teachers in rural schools feel that education reform should ensure they get better training and opportunities to obtain masters degrees.

    Ethnic issues Law Lead Story News

    Shan land requisitioned for military golf course

    130 famers face eviction as land requisitions for a military golf course in Shan State begin.

    Analysis Contributor Lead Story News

    The real story behind the Mansi military offensive

    Brang Hkangda of Kachinland News examines the recent military offensive in Mansi, Kachin state, and the capital interests that make peace a distant ideal.

    Military land grabs leave farmers in despair video

    Features Lead Story Property Video

    Military land grabs leave farmers in despair

    Farmers in Dalla township are forced to relocate after the Burmese military confiscated 500 acres of land to make way for a naval storage base.

    Politics

    Burma begins to move displaced Rohingya as cyclone nears

    The Burmese government on Monday morning began to relocate some of the thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims stuck in camps in western Burma, as a tropical cyclone moves closer to battering the conflict-torn region

    Politics

    Buddhists protest the resettlement of Rohingya Muslims

    Hundreds of Buddhist residents in western Burma’s Arakan state took to the streets this week to protest a government plan to resettle Rohingya Muslims, who were uprooted in last year’s ethno-religious clashes

    Environment News

    Residents in flooded delta region call for more aid

    Residents in the Irrawaddy Region’s Pantanaw township, which has been submerged by floodwaters for more than a month, are calling for emergency relief

    News Politics

    Shan villagers beaten by troops: reports

    Burmese soldiers loot villages and attack inhabitants as heavy fighting against the Shan State Army continues across the state

    Environment News

    Floods and insects destroy farmland

    Farmland in Bago division remains underwater, bug infestation eats away at crops in nearby Rangoon and Mandalay is hit by record rainfall

    Business Environment News Uncategorized

    Global warming causing low rice yields

    Dec 18, 2009 (DVB), Rice production in Burma, once coined the 'rice bowl of Asia', is falling due to increasingly irregular weather patterns that result from global warming, a Burmese[…]

    Environment News

    India lays waste to Burma’s untouched rivers

    JJ KimNov 10, 2009 (DVB), A new transport system connecting North East India with the sea via western Burma will damage the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and[…]

    Environment News

    India lays waste to Burma’s untouched rivers

    JJ KimNov 10, 2009 (DVB), A new transport system connecting North East India with the sea via western Burma will damage the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and[…]

    News

    Eastern Burma facing ‘severe’ food crisis

    Oct 19, 2009 (DVB), Armed conflict has contributed to what could be the worst food security problem in Burma's eastern Karen state in over a decade, a report by Karen[…]

    Business News

    Food tax levied on struggling Burmese

    Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]

    Environment News

    10,000 acres of farmland destroyed

    Aug 20, 2009 (DVB), Around 10,000 acres of rice paddy fields located alongside one of Burma's major rivers have been destroyed after weeks of heavy rainfall caused extensive flooding in[…]

    Features (OLD) Politics

    An enduring byproduct of war

    Daniella NayuJuly 20, 2009 (DVB), For half a century, Burma's jungles and mountains have hosted a conflict where conventional weaponry has been traded for tactics designed to forever scar the[…]

    Features (OLD) Politics

    An enduring byproduct of war

    Daniella NayuJuly 20, 2009 (DVB), For half a century, Burma's jungles and mountains have hosted a conflict where conventional weaponry has been traded for tactics designed to forever scar the[…]

    News

    Food tax levied on struggling Burmese

    Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]

    Business Environment News

    Upcoming delta farming season ‘is critical’

    May 1, 2009 (DVB), Post-cyclone aid should focus on assisting villagers and farmers to rehabilitate land, said an international aid organization yesterday after voicing concern about the fragile health of[…]

    News

    Farmers’ lawyer sentenced to four years in prison

    Mar 18, 2009 (DVB), A young lawyer defending farmers whose land had been forcibly seized by the army was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Magwe division court yesterday, said[…]

    Business News

    Farmer hangs himself after failing to pay debts

    Mar 6, 2009 (DVB), A farmer from Ywatthit village in Rangoon's Kayan township, which was badly affected by Cyclone Nargis, has hanged himself because he could not pay his debts.[…]

    Environment News

    Locals fear dam will flood farmland and homes

    Mar 5, 2009 (DVB), Locals from Kyauktaw township, Arakan state, are concerned that the recently opened Zeegyaung Dam will flood their farmland and homes. The electricity-generating dam was officially opened[…]

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