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Northwest Rangoon braces for 30-hour power cut
Burma is currently implementing a 15-year World Bank plan to bring electricity to more than seven million households by 2030.
China may scrap Myitsone dam to advance other interests: sources
China has shifted its position in a lengthy dispute with Burma over the building of the $3.6 billion dam, signalling its willingness to abandon the project in exchange for other economic and strategic opportunities in Burma.
Aussie panel offers mixed outlook on Burma’s economic prospects
Australian investors keen to access Burma’s mining industry and replicate lessons learned from the island nation’s mining boom years raise questions about taxation, policy constraints and bureaucracy at a panel discussion in Rangoon.
Rural Burma still lit by candles, kerosene and batteries
Generators are expensive. Pact says one hour of diesel power in rural Burma costs roughly the same as 24 hours of power in Rangoon.
Ethnic communities protest dams risking lives, cultures and environments
Ethnic communities across Burma are raising their voices to strongly oppose plans by the Burma government and the global hydropower industry to build large dams that threaten to destroy their lives and livelihoods.
Rethinking Burma’s waterways through Foucault’s biopolitics
Perspectives on Burma’s waterways have been polarised into two competing positions: focusing on developing its vast hydropower potential and advocating for local communities’ needs and concerns.
