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Asia Times Online
BANGKOK - Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand says he intends to scrap the previous government's controversial multi-billion dollar plans to ramp up imports of hydroelectric power and natural gas from neigh...
The Irrawaddy
Thailand will not rely on Burma for gas supplies or electricity from controversial river hydro dam schemes for the country’s energy needs in the next decade, new Energy Minister Piyasvati Amranand said in Bangkok ...
RUILI, China, and BANGKOK, Thailand - If you've ever had a seafood dinner in Kunming or a number of other inland southern Chinese cities, the catch may have taken a tortuous trip across the mountains from the My...
Bangkok Post
The new board of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) will consider a plan to establish Egat International Co as a subsidiary to invest in energy projects overseas.
Interfax
Shanghai. October 26. INTERFAX-CHINA – The proposal to build 13 hydropower plants on the Nu (Salween) River in southwestern China's Yunnan Province constitutes a form of "predatory development", said Wang Shucheng, Chi...
Reuters
New Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand has killed the grand plans of his predecessors, from vast tracts of oil palms to make biodiesel to building hydropower dams in military-ruled Myanmar.
The Age (Australia)
UNESCO has threatened to delist one of China's World Heritage areas if the Government proceeds with a plan to reduce the site by 20 per cent and allow mining and dam development around the remaining area.
The Irrawaddy Online
Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's energy minister, is considering a move to refocus the country's hydropower projects from Burma to Laos, according to a source close to the minister.
South China Morning Post
Yunnan intends to scrap a controversial dam project along the Nu River, a few months after Unesco threatened to take one of theprovince's attractions off its World Heritage list, environmental sourc...
The Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Foreign investment in Myanmar has hit its highest-ever total since it opened to outside investors in 1988, reaching more than US$6 billion (euro4.8 billion) in the 2005-06 fiscal year a...
The Irawaddy Online
The death toll in the floods that have ravaged regions of Burma has risen in the Mandalay Division to 19, the official press reported on Sunday. Local sources, however, say the true toll is higher.
Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has told each newly appointed minister to look into the projects initiated by the previous government anddetermine whether or not to proceed. In all likelihood there wil...
The victims of recent flooding in central Burma have complained of insufficient relief assistance, according to relief officials and local residents.
The Myanmar Times
THE Department of Hydropower is conducting preliminary surveys for 16 new hydropower plants in addition to the 15 already under construction, said a senior official from the Ministry of Electric Power (1) on Aug...
IPS and IFEJ
Will South-east Asia's last untouched body of water, the Salween river, emerge as a testing ground for the future relationship between this region's oldest military regime, in Burma, and the new junta on the block, i...
Myanmar-information.net
Nay Pyi Taw, 22 Sept — The Special Projects Implementation Committee held the coordination meeting No 1/2006 at the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army) here this afternoon with an address by Senior G...
The controversial Salween hydropower dam project is likely to go ahead without a social and environmental impact study to avoid interfering in Burma's internal affairs, a senior official of the Electricity Generating...
Karen Rivers Watch, 16th March 2006
We 359 people of different ethic nationalities from 7 Burmese social organizations, as well as Thai social organizations and local villagers attended the International Day of Action Again...
Kayan New Generation Youth, 14th March 2006
Annually on the 14 of March is an international day against dams. We, the Kayan New Generation Youth, founded in 2002, would like to use this opportunity to express our sincere concern ...
