Hundreds of residents protested Thursday against a China-backed petroleum pipeline project in western Burma’s Rakhine state over inadequate compensation and demands that the project developer provide better transportation infrastructure and higher salaries for local workers.
Around 400 people gathered...
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A group of farmers from Shan state issued a public call on Friday demanding that Burma’s government remove sections of the Shwe gas pipeline built on their land.Representatives of the Northern Shan Farmers Committee sent an open letter to the Shan state parliament in Taunggyi citing environmental...
Construction of the Shwe gas pipeline near Hsipaw, Shan State. (Photo: Francis Wade)
Much-delayed plans to kick-start an international scramble for oil and gas on Burma’s Bay of Bengal coast are due to be unveiled this month, but the Ministry of Energy has yet to provide any details of the license...
A leading oil security expert has weighed in on the potential dangers of operating twin gas and oil pipelines in northern Shan state while fighting between the Burma army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is ongoing near the pipeline route.
A long stretch of KIA- controlled territory lies along...
Last week’s media reports that the Chinese army was involved in intense training in the hills of Yunnan Province near the Myanmar border raised few eyebrows.
Marines of the People’s Liberation Army (Navy) pictured at Zhanjiang in 2006. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)
State news service Xinhua...
Construction on the Sino-Myanmar pipeline. (Photo/Xinhua)
A soon-to-be completed gas pipeline connecting the Indian Ocean coast of Myanmar with southwest China may help China avoid military obstacles set up by the United States, reports the Voice of Russia, an international broadcaster based in Moscow.
The...
A spokesperson for China National Petroleum Corporation has rebutted complaints that its controversial pipeline project to transport offshore oil and gas from Rakhine State to China has failed to compensate people who lost land to it.
The spokesperson also said the pipeline was being constructed according...
For decades, Myanmar was isolated diplomatically, an economic backwater that seemed almost frozen in time amid a Southeast Asian region that was modernizing at a rapid pace.
But the political reforms under way in Myanmar, also known as Burma, are redefining its place in the world. President Obama’s...
Peace talks were held on February 4 between representatives of the government of Burma (Myanmar) and of the Kachin state separatist movement in the Chinese city of Ruili, located near the Chinese-Burmese border.
The two sides have agreed to resume negotiations by the end of the month. A statement foreshadowed...
Myanmar called for peace talks with ethnic Kachin rebels amid growing concern over attacks on civilians and the potential that the conflict might spill over into neighboring China.
A government peace negotiating committee invited the Kachin Independence Organization, the armed group’s political wing,...
