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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31 May 2011
Beijing has announced that China Railway will construct the 810 km railway connecting the Chinese city of Dali, Yunnan province to Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma. Under the signed MOU, China Railway would be in-charge of building the railroad and said it expected to complete the project within three years. It has been previously reported […]
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26 May 2011
Burmese leader General Than Shwe is visiting China on Thursday for his first official visit as Burma’s new president. The trip will include three days in Beijing where in-depth discussion on China’s navy docking in Burmese ports and their desire to provide naval protection for oil and gas facilities at the port of Kyaukpyu, Ramree […]
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22 May 2011
Promotional video showcasing the ambitious plans for developing Kyaukpyu, Ramree Island, as an economic and technological zone. The development is to be undertaken by China’s CITIC Group (citic.com) and includes large deep water ports, airfield and a 200km/h railroad connecting Kyaukpyu to China. According to the Burma’s Special Economic Zone Law, tax exemptions are offered […]
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02 September 2010
Chinese are establishing naval and air bases on Myanmar’s Ramree Island in the Bay of Bengal. These bases on Ramree Island will help the Chinese in their endeavors to control the upper Bay of Bengal. Source: http://www.indiandefencereview.com/geopolitics/The-Chinese-are-coming.html
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21 October 2008
A Chinese-led consortium with a concession for oil exploration on Burma’s Ramree Island has left hundreds of local islanders landless and unemployed and their environment befouled, a human rights group said Tuesday. Blocking Freedom, a report compiled by the environmental and human rights group Arakan Oil Watch, said a consortium led by the China National Offshore […]
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08 February 2008
Some residents of the Arakan state’s Ramree township have complained that local officials are declining to authorize paid-for roadway repairs unless youths in the area join the USDA, the Union Solidarity and Development Association. About 7.5 million kyat has been raised by the local military division commander and minister of transportation Thein Swe to pay […]
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31 January 2008
Ramree is an island off the largely undeveloped western coast of Burma, and it is rich in natural beauty. Just off shore, however, is a resource with extreme monetary value. The site offers Southeast Asia’s largest deposits of natural gas, estimated to be worth perhaps up to $52 billion. The deposits are called “golden gas” […]
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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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05 April 2006
An explosion at the Atwin Byin village oil exploratory block in Ramree Township last month has injured a number of Chinese and other works. The explosion occurred while detonating a mine and caused serious injuries to two Chinese technicians and seven Burmese workers. Democratic Voice of Burma correspondent U Maung Maung Hein contacted a resident of […]
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