Salween River
The Salween (Thanlwin) River is one of the major waterways of Myanmar (Burma). Entering northeastern Myanmar from China's Yunnan Province, it flows southward through the mountain ...
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Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border."I witnessed the aftermath _ survivor...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Thai and Myanmar villagers, backed by activists
around the world, on Wednesday appealed to the Thai government to end
its collaboration with military-run Mya...
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Yangon (dpa) - Construction work on a 600-megawatt hydroelectric
project on the Shweli River in upper Myanmar is 51 per cent
completed, state-run media reports said Friday. ...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Three dams slated to be constructed on the Salween
River on the Thai-Myanmar border would create an "inland sea" that
would cut off the Karen insurgency's su...
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Tens of thousands of villagers could be displaced and a fragile ecosystem destroyed by a hydropower project being built on northeastern Myanmar's Salween River, an international conservation group ...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Thailand has agreed to buy 5,000 megawatts of
hydro-electricity from land-locked Laos by the year 2015, and is
discussing imports of another 2,000mw thereaft...
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While international attention has focused on the protests for democracy in Myanmar's cities, a hidden war has decimated generations of the country's powerless ethnic minorities, who have faced brut...
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Beijing/Bangkok (dpa) - For more than a decade, China - with its
1.3 billion consumers and legions of industrious, low-paid workers -
has been Asia's biggest magnet for fore...
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