Preparing for the cyclone—this time round
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-20 05:08:34 -0700 | green-news
Preparing for the cyclonethis time round The organised response to the cyclone was a far cry from the lack of action by the Myanmar authorities that preceded Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. We don't need to be reminded of the...
Myanmar drafts five-year dairy development plan
Source: NewKerala
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-09 23:53:48 -0700 | green-news
The five-year draft concept plan (2013-18) were discussed recently at a stakeholder consultation workshop with Myanmar dairy sector representatives, reported Xinhua. The report quoted Minister of Livestock and Fisheries U Ohn Myint as saying that regional dairy development boards have...
Electricity supply cut at Myanmars manufacturing hubs
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-09 08:08:46 -0700 | green-news
Manufacturers in Myanmar's two biggest cities are facing steep increases in costs and possible job losses after the government shut down their electricity supply, the latest sign that the ageing power grid is holding back economic development. The country's Electricity...
Gold miners among 16 dead in Myanmar landslide
Source: Qatar English Daily
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-03 06:43:45 -0700 | green-news
At least 16 people have died among them gold miners in landslides caused by heavy rain in eastern Myanmar, a Red Cross official said Friday, adding rescuers have been hampered by poor roads. Relief teams were battling to reach...
Myanmar activists: 7 injured in mine crackdown
Source: The Boston Globe
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-25 10:14:45 -0700 | green-news
Myanmar (AP) Activists in Myanmar say police have injured seven people and arrested three others in a new crackdown on residents opposed to a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine project. The violence occurred Thursday near northwest Myanmar's Letpadaung mine as farmers...
Rakhine project stirs anger
Source: Asia Times
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-19 02:48:58 -0700 | green-news
Apr 19, '13 Rakhine project stirs anger By Min Thein Aung and Zin Mar Win Hundreds of residents protested on Thursday against a China-backed petroleum pipeline project in western Myanmar's Rakhine State over inadequate compensation and demands that the project...
Energy crisis has passed: Egat
Source: The Nation
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-14 06:15:55 -0700 | green-news
Power blackout or brownout in some areas of Thailand were anticipated as Total Exploration and Production Myanmar, the operator of Yadana gas field in Myanmar, shut down the field for maintenance on April 5. This resulted in the disruption of...
Yadana maintenance is 50% complete: PTT
Source: The Nation
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-09 05:43:49 -0700 | green-news
PTT The Nation April 9, 2013 7:00 pm The maintenance of Yadana gas rig has been 50 per cent completed as of April 9, according to PTT. Chakree Buranakanon, senior executive vice president of PTT, said that since the gas...
'No rise' in Ft rate
Source: The Nation
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-02 11:43:09 -0700 | green-news
Usage has been at a record high since the end of March and is expected to achieve a peak daily level of 27,000 megawatts this year," ERC chairman Direk Lavansiri said yesterday. "As a result, we are greatly concerned about...
No hard sell on Myanmar timber
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-01 01:45:09 -0700 | green-news
No hard sell on Myanmar timber In recent years there have been few if any restrictions on timber exports from Myanmar, which remains one of the only countries in the world to permit hardwood logs to be exported and value-added...
Study: Pythons destroying Everglades, mammals decline linked to snakes
Source: The Naples Daily News
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | updated 2012-03-31 02:53:05 -0700 | technology-news
Burmese pythons are eating their way through the Everglades, leaving a dramatic decline in mammal populations in their slithering wake in just a decade, according to a study published today. Researchers kept track of animals like raccoons, opossums and rabbits...
Is Burma's government listening to the people
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-12-07 02:47:29 -0800 | business-news
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Myanmar buys time with dam block
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-01-23 17:13:13 -0800 | political-news
China has reacted coolly to Myanmar's surprise suspension of a controversial US$3.6 billion hydropower dam project it backed in the country's war-torn Kachin state. Hitherto cautious observers have greeted the stoppage as the first tangible reform move undertaken by the...
MYANMAR: Dam busters fight back
Source: IRIN
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-11-24 10:09:57 -0800 | political-news
Resistance is growing to a hydroelectric dam being built at the beginning of the Ayeyarwady River in Myanmar's northern Kachin State, with several campaigns to halt construction under way. Opponents to the Myitsone Dam have been collecting signatures, circulating posters,...
Report: Myanmar to proceed with controversial dam
Source: Taiwan News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-11-13 02:20:14 -0800 | political-news
A report says Myanmar has decided to proceed with construction of a major dam despite opposition from ethnic minorities and environmentalists. Ethnic Kachin people and environmental groups say the Myanmar- China Myitsone Hydroelectric Project in Kachin state will damage the...
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