01 October 2011
Residents of Ramree Island and other townships in Arakan State are feeling the benefits of cheaper electricity prices after privatization of generators and grids has been given the go-ahead. Electricity on Ramree Island is not supplied by the national grid but from diesel generators. Traditionally these generators have been run by the state, but from […]
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10 June 2011
At a conference in Bangkok on Wednesday, the Italian-Thai Development Public Company outlined their plans for a mega deep-sea and industrial estate near the fishing town of Dawei (formally Tavoy), southern Burma. The 10-year, $8 billion plan comes 3 years after the Burmese and Thai governments signed an agreement to jointly develop a port project […]
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15 January 2008
China is aiming to satisfy its growing energy needs with a pipeline through Burma, an effort that will complicate American attempts to change the regime in Rangoon, which has been widely condemned for its human rights abuses. Burma’s ruling junta, the State Peace and Development Council, attracted global attention in September, when its security forces […]
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