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Nearly a decade in the making, a project to pump oil across Burma to southwest China is set for imminent start-up, with a supertanker nearing the port of Kyaukphyu, marking the opening of a new oil trading route.
Arakan Business Economy Environment Lead Story News
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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Aye Maung said he has not responded to China’s offers of help. But he said he would like tractors and farm machinery to help with Arakan’s harvest.
Analysis Lead Story News Protest
Land disputes, industrial action, and student activists: Bo Gyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners on the right to protest.
Fourteen ethnic workers in Arakan State’s Ann Township will be charged on 10 February for alleged involvement in a fire at a fuel relay station along the Shwe gas pipeline route.
Farmers in Magwe division in north-western Burma say they have still not been compensated for the mass destruction of crops caused by the construction of the controversial China-backed Shwe Gas pipeline.
