US$24.3-million for upgrading water distribution and waste disposal systems as well as capacity building of government employees in Myawaddy of Kayin state.
Category: Myanmar
Communities in the Balance: Local Voices and Prospects for the Dawei Special Economic Zone
What community members want is arguably not the SEZ itself but rather the benefits they associate with it: employment, material progress, and economic security.
Neglecting Myanmar’s biodiversity means cost and conflict for businesses
Yangon-based Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business recently published a briefing paper on biodiversity, human rights and business, advising stakeholders on how some types of investment can negatively affect biodiversity and hence affect human rights.
China helps Myanmar top LDC investment chart
Myanmar attracted the most foreign direct investment of any of the world’s LDCs in 2017, even though it was forcing the expulsion of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
How a Myanmar community dealt with harmful mining
Communities across the Mekong and elsewhere can look to the Heinda mining case to see one method of influencing development projects.
Sharing fishing grounds with Irrawaddy Dolphins that they have given names
“During my childhood, there were periods when not even one died in three years. These days, there have been as many as three deaths a year and there might be others.”
Myanmar Plans Economic Zones on Chinese Border
The three SEZs are projects under the BRI with the objective of promoting economic integration between the southern border of China and Myanmar as well as infrastructure development.
Myanmar, Thailand to Jointly Upgrade Highway from Border to Dawei SEZ
The agreement calls for conducting a survey and design work in preparation for upgrading the two-lane highway. The route will connect the border crossing point at Htee Kee to the SEZ via Myittar.