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The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.
Once perfected in Burma, the technology could help other large-scale restoration projects, said WIF’s Lyngdoh.
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Coal would be one of the quickest ways to ramp up power generation, but the option is unpopular in Burma.
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During the dry season from mid-April to the end of June, many people have difficulty getting clean water, especially those living in remote areas.
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The Heinda Tin Mine is operated by Myanmar Pongpipat Co Ltd which is owned by a Thai company but registered in Burma.
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Eumeralla and its local partner Myanmar Energy Resources Group are seeking to explore a 400km-square area in Karenni State.
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An Arakanese civil society group says that 300,000 people in Arakan State have signed a petition calling for greater control over resource extraction in the impoverished region.
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Burma’s decision to shake up its multi-billion dollar jade business is a ground-breaking opportunity to stop human rights abuses and increase transparency, say activists.
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Burma’s government wants to pursue more sustainable economic development by depending less on resources, says a German business delegation.
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Activists from Arakan State say they hope Burma’s incoming government will reevaluate projects that do little to benefit local populations.
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The discovery is the largest gas reserve in the history of offshore exploration in Burma, according to Naypyidaw.
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Now that the vote has lived up to its seismic billing, DVB sat down with Professor Maw Than, a former director of the Central Bank of Myanmar to discuss how next year’s NLD-led government will continue the project of Burmese economic rehabilitation.
Burma’s state-owned Myanma Petroleum Products Enterprise (MPPE) has agreed to a joint venture with Puma Energy Group Pte Ltd to distribute jet fuel.
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Maday islanders now have access to four hours of electricity per day, after campaigning for compensation from the China National Petroleum Corporation.
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DVB interviews Bar Bar Cho, joint secretary of the Myanmar Timber Merchants Association, about how Burma’s new logging export ban will affect his industry.
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In a country known as the Golden Land, gold miners are dying of a disease endemic to their work.
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Burma’s vast bamboo forests have great potential to produce a sustainable crop that could be sold worldwide, according to a group of environmentalists.
A four-day regional development workshop responding to the challenges posed by drugs and environmental degradation has concluded in Shan State
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Chin civic groups and politicians have demanded full public disclosure of the scope and impact of the Mwe Taung nickel mine, fearing that the environmental and social impacts may be far more severe than current data predicts.
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Villagers in Mon State’s Paung Township rallied against a proposed plan by a Burmese private company, Amberto Mining, to quarry Kalarma Mountain.
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A 37-ton slab of jade was found in Hpakant on 9 February. The Burmese military cordoned off the area, spelling trouble for the district’s small-time excavators.
Ashin Sekeina, a Buddhist monk from Arakan State capital Sittwe, has just completed his pilgrimage to Mrauk U, a 100-plus mile journey by foot in the name of peace and regional development.
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Around 150 villagers and Buddhist monks gather at Shwezigon Pagoda in Monywa to conduct a prayer ceremony to mark the anniversary, nearly one year ago, of the night riot police brutally firebombed peaceful protestors at a historical Buddhist site near the Latpadaung copper mine.
An umbrella group of political and civic Arakanese groups issue a statement demanding a halt to all natural resource extraction projects in Arakan state until a genuine federal system is implemented in Burma.
The Irrawaddy Dolphins are being threatened with extinction by the practice of “electrofishing”, which provides high yields for individual fishers at the expense of the natural environment.
A petition campaign led by the RNDP has been launched in Arakan state calling for an equitable distribution of benefits from the region’s natural resources.
