Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
A second report covering the Myitsone dam project on the Irrawaddy River will soon be submitted to the Burmese president for his consideration.
Business Lead Story News Suu Kyi
Speaking in Washington, the Burmese leader urged businesses to invest in the Southeast Asian country as a way to advance its democratic transition.
The US is temporarily easing trade restrictions on Burma by allowing all shipments to go through its ports for six months, officials said on Monday.
Business Lead Story News Trade
Half of all Burma’s trade flows through the Asia World terminal, owned by blacklisted Steven Law.
Kachin Land Lead Story Natural resources News
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.
A bomb blast in northern Shan state’s Kunlong township on Tuesday left three people dead and two others injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Twenty-three farmers who staged a “ploughing protest” in Rangoon’s Dagon-Seikkan township are being sued for trespassing by the Green Asia Company, an arm of Asia World.
Water exit passage from Asia World-run hydropower project in Karenni state caves in, killing a Chinese engineer and six workers
Analysis Business Features (OLD) Politics
One spectre threatens to over shadow the junta’s experiment with ‘democracy’ and in turn the country; a spectre that threatens to dominate the nation and define power within for years to come.
