China agrees to 70% share in Kyaukphyu sea port
Burma had pushed for a bigger slice of the roughly US$7.2 billion deep sea port in western Arakan State.
Burma had pushed for a bigger slice of the roughly US$7.2 billion deep sea port in western Arakan State.
Arakan International Relations Lead Story News
Can Burma’s government please China, bring development and job opportunities, and ensure local residents’ rights are upheld as plans for the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone move forward?
China is looking to take a stake of up to 85 percent in a strategically important sea port in Burma, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, in a move that could heighten tensions over China’s growing economic clout in the country.
Crime Lead Story News Pegu Division
Win Naing was rushed to Phyu Hospital, but later transferred to Rangoon General Hospital as his condition worsened.
Arakan Business Lead Story Natural resources News
Twenty-one local farmers spurn a compensation ceremony in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, when they find that the event was being staged to conclude the matter without attempting to rectify damage to their fields.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
House speaker and former chairman of the USDP Shwe Mann has conceded defeat to the National League for Democracy candidate in Phyu,
Residents from Malakyun and Gonchein villages are demanding compensation for the farmland destroyed by the company’s operations.
Latpadaung Lead Story Natural resources News Protest
Activist protesting arrest of Phyu Hnin Htwe sentenced in Mandalay.
Lead Story Natural resources News Sagaing
Phyu Hnin Htwe, an ABFSU member and student at Mandalay’s Yadanabon University, walked free from a Sagaing Division courthouse after kidnapping charges against her were dropped.
Arakan Business Lead Story News
Twelve companies from seven countries have submitted proposals for the development of a Special Economic Zone in Kyaukphyu, western Burma, according to the SEZ selection committee.
The construction companies for a planned special economic zone in Arakan State will be selected through an tender bidding process that will conclude in December.
The master plan for Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will be presented to the public next month, Myanmar Business Today have reported. The plan is currently being drafted by Creative Professional Groups, a[…]
Representatives of the Arakanese Buddhist community, armed groups and civil society groups will rub shoulders with state government officials and MPs this week as the Arakan National Conference takes place in Kyaukphyu.
Villagers from Sinboat village-tract were on their way back from collecting wood in a mangrove forest when their overloaded boat tipped over and capsized in a creek.
Business Environment Lead Story News
Kyaukphyu residents are now enjoying 24-hour electricity thanks to the Shwe Gas project, but locals in nearby Ann township say the pipeline sprung a leak which spewed fire last week.
The Burmese government announced on Sunday through state-run media that it will invite tender bids for a special economic zone development in Kyaukphyu, western Arakan state.
Jan 19, 2009 (DVB), Lawyer Pho Phyu, who is well known for representing political activists in various trials across Burma, has been arrested by Magwe division authorities in Aung Lan[…]
May 21, 2008 (DVB), HIV/AIDS activist Phyu Phyu Thin has taken a team of relief workers to provide assistance to a remote village that aid efforts have so far failed[…]
July 03, 2007 (DVB)
U Zaw Myat Lin, in-charge of Su Vocational School in Shwe Pyi Thar, Yangon, died in custody after his organization was raided by the Coup d’état around 1 a.m this[…]
“The military-formed union election commission(UEC) attempts to have acknowledgement of their legitimacy from the political parties,” said Sai Leik, General Secretary of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), regarding the[…]
Although imposing public gatherings of more than 5 people under the section of 144, there are anti-coup mass protests still happening in downtown Yangon, also in Manday around this noon[…]
Flash flooding continues to wreak havoc across Burma this week claiming three lives and leaving a path of destruction. Three people have been killed in the floods in Magwe Division,[…]
The Mon army spokesman confirmed that dialogue focused on measures to resolve the territory conflict, and to prevent clashes from recurring.
On International Women’s Day, DVB looks at some of the young leaders challenging gender stereotypes and leading Burma’s feminism movement, from lawmakers calling for more protection against gender-based violence. . .
Analysis Lead Story News Women's Issues
The Home Affairs Ministry has been blasted for re-enforcing harmful assumptions about gender-based violence after it released a document positing that women consuming alcohol was among the leading causes of the rape of women and children.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.
An abbot at a monastery in Bago Region is facing criminal charges after he allegedly forcibly kissed a woman and will now have to answer to a court for the Penal Code offence of “assault or criminal force [against a] woman with intent to outrage her modesty.”
The Arakan Army has alleged that Burma’s military used helicopter gunships over the weekend to launch offensives in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township, where some of the ethnic armed group’s troops are based.
A man who launched a hot-air balloon to celebrate the 39th birthday of Brigadier-General Tun Myat Naing, leader of the Arakan Army, was arrested over the weekend and charged with “unlawful association” in the latest case involving the controversial colonial-era law.