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  1. UN Expert Supports Findings of Myanmar’s Rakhine Investigation Commission

    3 May 2013- 08:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON Tomás Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, this week expressed support for the recommendations released by the Rakhine Investigation Commission, a ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/03/2013 - 10:11

  2. Chinese Contractor Says Myanmar's Myitsone Dam Construction to Resume

    25 Jan 2013- 09:57 by Local Press Report RANGOON Mizzima (Myanmar) While construction work at the Myitsone Dam has been completely suspended, Chinese contractor CPI expressed hope that it will resume again after Thein Sein’s tenure as Burma’s President ...

    Local Press Report - 01/25/2013 - 10:03

  3. Residents of Myanmar's Conflict-Ridden Rakhine State Face Water, Health Crises

    19 Jul 2012- 09:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON Half of the 800,000 people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state lack access to clean water, and water-borne diseases among the main causes of death in the state, according to medical workers in the area ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/21/2013 - 21:44

  4. Faulty Dyke System Threatens Rice Production in Myanmar

    16 Jul 2012- 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON More than 1,200 hectares of paddy fields in Thone Kwa township in southern Rangoon have been destroyed by flooding following heavy monsoon rains this month. Some 40 villages have been affected ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/19/2013 - 20:11

  5. Myanmar’s Hatgyi Dam Set for Construction Despite Protests

    9 Jul 2012- 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON The Myanmar government has approved a controversial dam project on the Salween River in Karen state, environmental NGO International Rivers said last week. The group told The Irrawaddy news ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 07/09/2012 - 10:16

  6. Myanmar Takes on Pesticides in Water

    5 Jun 2012- 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, YANGON Myanmar has developed standards on pesticide residue in drinking water as part of a larger safe drinking water policy that will be adopted soon, according to government officials. Officials from ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/15/2013 - 16:37

  7. Burma Hydro Project a Cover for Chinese Gold Mining?

    8 May 2012- 12:53 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON The Thai-based Shwe Gas Movement claimed at the end of April that Chinese companies are planning to extract gold from Peophru Island in the Laymro River in western Burma’s Arakan state " ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/15/2013 - 16:37

  8. Rangoon to Raise Water Tarrifs

    21 Feb 2012- 22:21 by Local Press Report RANGOON Mizzima (Myanmar) Water in Rangoon, already in short supply in some areas, is going to cost more starting April 1. The Rangoon City Development Committee announced last week that water bills would increase ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2012 - 14:29

  9. China Pressures Myanmar to Resume Cancelled Dam Project

    15 Feb 2012- 07:40 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON The Chinese government is pressuring neighboring Myanmar to resume the controversial Myitsone Hydropower Dam project in Kachin state. The project, which was to be built by the Chinese, was ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/24/2013 - 19:04

  10. Hydrotek Eyes Myanmar Tap Water Deal

    24 Jan 2012- 09:43 by Local Press Report YANGON Bangkok Post (Thailand) Thailand-based Hydrotek Plc Hydro held preliminary talks with the Yangon City Development Committee on providing tap water to the capital of Myanmar. The company will submit a ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2012 - 14:31

  11. Halt to Myitsone Dam Construction Could Have International Implications

    28 Nov 2011- 14:57 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON The decision by the Myanmar government to stop construction of the Myitsone Dam shows just how fraught with risk agreements like the ones Myanmar signed with China can be, and may have ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/29/2013 - 11:17

  12. Japan Urged to Investigate Abuses in Lawpita Hydropower Plant Rehabilitation Project

    8 Nov 2011- 14:05 by Local Press Report RANGOON Democratic Voice of Burma Japan should investigate abuses committed during rehabilitation of the 168-megawatt Lawpita Hydropower Plant No. 2 Dam in Burma’s eastern Karenni state before considering resuming ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:37

  13. Burma to Suspend Construction of Myitsone Dam

    4 Oct 2011- 09:30 by Local Press Report RANGOON Voice of America Construction of the Chinese-backed Myitsone hydroelectric dam in Kachin state will be suspended, Burmese President Thein Sein said. He told parliament the project would be shelved during his ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:37

  14. Burma’s Water Supply Threatened by Irrawaddy River Dam Project

    27 Sep 2011- 08:56 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MYANMAR, RANGOON On September 20 the Myanmar government asked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) to clear troops from a route along the Sino-Burmese border so construction materials from China could be ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/15/2013 - 16:37

  15. Government Says Myitsone Dam Will Have No Impact on Irrawaddy River or Population

    16 Aug 2011- 09:46 by Local Press Report RANGOON The Irrawaddy (Myanmar) Construction of the Myitsone Dam in Kachin state, northern Burma, will have no negative impact on the flow of the Irrawaddy River, nor on the lives and livelihoods of the local ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2012 - 14:48

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