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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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Twenty-one local farmers spurn a compensation ceremony in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, when they find that the event was being staged to conclude the matter without attempting to rectify damage to their fields.
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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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Residents of Maday are complaining that they still have not been provided the 24-hour electricity service promised to them last year.
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Seventeen labourers in Burma’s western Arakan State have been charged with arson, aggravated trespassing and abetting crime for alleged involvement in a fire at a relay station along the Shwe gas and oil pipelines in January.
At its best, the EITI could temper irresponsible partners and federal misuse of funds. It could also add legitimacy to a windfall of investments in places and economies that many think are unprepared for rapid change.
The 800-km gas and oil pipeline corridor running from Burma’s western Arakan coast to China’s southern Yunnan province poses no threat to the environment or to nearby communities, according to Burmese Deputy Minister of Energy Aung Htoo.
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.
Ten local residents in Arakan state’s Kyaukphyu township were sentenced to three months in jail on Thursday for staging an unauthorised protest against a controversial China-backed gas pipeline.
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Kyaukphyu residents are now enjoying 24-hour electricity thanks to the Shwe Gas project, but locals in nearby Ann township say the pipeline sprung a leak which spewed fire last week.
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.
Burma has the worst record on natural resource governance in the entire world, according to a new international study, which activists on Thursday described as a “warning” to global investors eyeing oil and gas deals in the country
Ten Arakanese activists, who face up to one year in jail for staging an “unlawful” protest against a controversial China-backed oil and gas pipeline, appeared in court in western Burma on Monday
At least three people were detained and questioned by local authorities in Arakan state on Friday, for their alleged role in staging an unauthorised protest against the Chinese-backed Shwe Gas Pipeline
A number of lucrative energy contracts are likely to be handed to Western firms in April, when the Burmese government is set to open a long-awaited bidding round for some two dozen off-shore oil and gas tenders
Residents of Kyaukphyu in western Burma are becoming restless as the controversial Shwe Gas and Oil Project nears completion
Residents in Tenasserim division and northern Shan state are filing complaints against companies that they say are ruining their farmlands and rivers
Legal consequences may result from cancellation of Myitsone Dam owing to the agreements already made by Burmese government
Railways minister Aung Min claims evictees from a planned rail link to China will receive full compensation for their land
Govt minister says that work on high speed railway link from China could commence in December, connecting Arakan coast to Yunnan’s Kunming
Ceremony held in Mandalay to celebrate welding commencement as locals fear for their livelihoods with worries over compensation
UN chief, Ban Ki-moon has admitted that he has been ‘frustrated’ by his engagement with the military junta
Multi-million dollar investment in Burmese gas by India draws the ire of rights groups who protest that the project will cause mass relocation
