Thai-backed venture in southeastern region would be Burma’s first sustainable energy project, but majority of produce destined for Thailand
Day: December 9, 2011
Gas pipeline victims get pay-off
Burmese authorities offer compensation for Shan villagers forced off their land to make way for the China-backed Shwe gas pipeline
Burma fourth top jailer of journalists
Report sobers rosy assessments of Burma’s reforms by claiming democracy remains out of reach until journalists are freed
Landmine scourge
[scrollGallery id=6] A UN report released this week says that Burma has one of the world’s highest casualty rates from landmines. The region bordering Thailand, which has hosted one of…
India-backed dam ‘to displace 45,000’
Demonstrators gather outside Indian parliament to protest Indiai’s financing of Tamanthi dam, which will flood an area the size of Delhi