Thailand is pushing hard for the Kaeng Krachan forest complex, on the Thai-Myanmar border, to be recognized as a natural world heritage site at the 43rd World Heritage Committee meeting in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku.
Category: Myanmar
Potential conflict with farmers over 7,000 acre “new city” project
Speaker of Arakan State parliament U San Kyaw Hla told officials from the company on 26 June that Arakan State is in a strategic location in regard to geopolitics, both eastern and western countries are interested in the undertaking but they need to cooperate with local people and give priority to the interests of local residents when it comes to decision making.
Myanmar Villagers Get 14 Months Hard Labor For 2018 Protest Over Chinese Cement Plant
A “one-sided decision. They seized our lands and they also destroyed all the crops on the farm.”
Myanmar’s strategic coastline lures big Asian economies
China, Japan and India are aggressively backing new port projects in Myanmar, seeking to gain a foothold on the coastline of the geographically prized nation.
Phakant jade mining temporarily put on hold
A decade of large scale mining has left the region and its people utterly scarred due to environmental degradation and mining disasters.
EIA exposed – the campaign against Myanmar’s teak trade accused of making false allegations against innocent timber trader
Says Myannar’s General Manager of Marketing at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation.
Foreign Developer Proposes 7,000-Acre Project in Sittwe
Foreign developer Gold Coast KTMG Myanmar has proposed a US$38 billion “new city” project in the suburbs of Sittwe, Rakhine State’s capital.
Govt Has Duty to Solve This: Kayah Farmers
More recently, they say, the military grabbed even more land, and on June 19—after the army erected fences that blocked routes to area farms—farmers protested.