22 November 2013
The Chinese oil port in the Arakan State’s coastal city of Kyaukpyu and the associated country-crossing pipeline to China’s Yunnan Province face a significant issue that could slow down operations considerably. Opposition from the Chinese people and environmental issues have delayed construction of the refinery that is supposed to receive nearly half of the 22 […]
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21 November 2013
New weather radio stations will be built in Kyaukpyu, Mandalay and Yangon by 2017 with aid to Burma from the Japanese worth nearly $39 million, according to Burma’s Meteorology and Hydrology Department (MHD). The station in the Arakan state’s Kyaukpyu area will be built first and will be started in December. Yangon gets a station […]
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19 November 2013
Buddhist mobs have joined forces to attack the last remaining mosque in Kyaukpyu town on Ramree Island. The worshipping house of the mosque was badly damaged and the minaret was destroyed. An activist said he heard about the people trying to destroy the mosque and went to investigate. He confirmed on November 19, the morning […]
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31 October 2013
The controversial pipeline that stretches from Ramree Island, western Burma to the southwestern part of China is now completely operational and will carry natural gas to help China meet its growing energy needs. As the second largest economy in the world, China is struggling to acquire access to the resources it needs to sustain and […]
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29 October 2013
President U Thein Sein proposed in a letter October 18th to construct a 50-megawatt power plant fuelled by natural gas in Kyaukpyu, Ramree Island. The proposal was made to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the legislative assembly, and indicated that more than $57 million had been set aside for the plant. The funds will come from a $5 […]
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03 October 2013
The $20 billion Chinese railway project that is projected to connect Kyaukpyu, Arakan State to Kunming in the southern part of Chinese is still being debated according to sources from within the government. Activist groups have been expressing their concerns along with the residents about not having the environment assessment report released as well as […]
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02 October 2013
Ten residents of Kyaukpyu, located in the Arakan state, were sentenced to three-month jail terms September 26 for their unauthorised protests against the Shwe pipeline, a controversial Chinese-backed project. The demonstration attracted the support of more than 500 locals and was held in mid-April on Maday Island. The controversy that caused the protest stems from […]
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18 September 2013
From Sunday 22nd September, residents of Kyaukpyu will for the first time have the convenience of 24 hour electricity. Made possible by gas turbines from Shwe Gas pipeline terminal converting compressed natural gas into electricity, homes in the Kyaukpyu township and surrounding villages will have electricity at standard rates of 35 kyat per unit. Local […]
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10 September 2013
According to state-run media, the government in Burma will offer development bids in the Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Both international and national firms are invited to submit their own “comprehensive strategies”, the Bid evaluation and Awarding Committee (BEAC) chairman has stated. This comes from an official report in The New Light of Myanmar. Kyaukpyu […]
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09 September 2013
Police in Kyaukpyu, Ramree Island, detained and interrogated 11 Chinese staff members of the Shwe National Gas Project on the 5th September concerning the unexplained death of a Chinese worker on the project. The workers are being detained for questioning. All of the employees on the project, located on Maday Island of the Kyaukpyu District, […]
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