Business Electricity Energy Lead Story News
Burma is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials say, in an ambitious move to tackle chronic power shortages in the energy-starved country.
International Relations Lead Story News
Energy-hungry Burma is in initial talks to buy electricity from China, according to officials and documents reviewed by Reuters, in the latest sign of warming ties with Beijing under leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Electricity Energy Lead Story News
Burma’s energy minister tells parliament that it will take another decade and a half for the the country realise its goal of universal access to electricity.
Business Development Lead Story News
The World Bank has approved a US $400 million interest-free credit to support the Burmese government’s expansion of the national electricity grid.
Burma’s Ministry of Electric Power says that it has increased access to electricity by 33 percent during the first three years of Thein Sein government rule. Furthermore, according to Electricity[…]
Arakan Lead Story Natural resources News
Residents of Maday are complaining that they still have not been provided the 24-hour electricity service promised to them last year.
Burma’s government plans to increase the country’s electricity reserves by 30 percent to prevent nationwide power outages, Deputy Union Minister for Electric Power Maw Tar Htwe said to the Myanmar Business[…]
Burmese households and businesses face new financial pressures after being saddled with higher electricity costs.
Arakan Development Lead Story News
Arakanese pay a whopping 500 kyat per unit of electricity while the rest of Burma pays just 35 kyat. However the state minister reveals plans to change all that.
The UK has signed an MoU with the Asian Development Bank to provide technical assistance worth $US 1.7 million to help Burma achieve its electricity needs, the British embassy has[…]
A signing ceremony on a US$60m loan pledged by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for electricity development in Burma was held in Naypyidaw on Monday, according to a ministry official.[…]
Burma’s President Thein Sein offered the opening remarks at the 2nd Myanmar Development Cooperation Forum on Monday, pledging to prioritise seven development programmes during the remainder of his term.
A new draft of Burma’s Electricity Bill is under final revision by relevant ministers and the lower house Natural Resources and Environmental Preservation Committee (NREPC), before submission to the ninth session of parliament this week.
Thailand’s leading calcium-carbonate producer SurintOmya Chemicals rules out the possibility of investing in Burma in the short term, citing unreliable electricity supply.
The World Bank on Tuesday approved a US$140 million interest-free loan to boost electricity access in Burma, where over 70 percent of the population live in darkness.
Due to constant power failures across Burma, medicines that need to be kept at specifically refrigerated temperatures, such as cancer medication and insulin, are becoming damaged and putting patients’ lives at risk.
Activists who joined the widespread protests calling for sufficient electricity supplies in Mandalay in May have been charged by the city’s police for demonstrating without official permission
Rangoon’s residents calling for better electricity supplies in Burma’s economic hub blew out their candles at Sule Pagoda on Sunday and stopped protesting
Rumoured price hikes likely to stir unrest in Burma as memories of September 2007 uprising still fresh in the minds of many
Mar 10, 2009 (DVB), Security has been tightened in Mon state capital, Moulmein, after high school students threw rocks at the state-run Electric Power Corporation last Friday, demanding full electricity[…]
Jan 26, 2009 (DVB), Electricity authorities in the Arakan state capital Sittwe has been demanding hundreds of thousands of kyat on top of the regular meter fee, according to local[…]
Aug 29, 2008 (DVB), Disputes have arisen between residents and authorities in Beinnar village in Pyuntansa, Bago division, after authorities failed to supply electricity to people despite having collecting money[…]
May 22, 2008 (DVB), Due to their support for the monk-led protests last September, some people living in Bahan township have still not had their electricity reconnected after it was[…]
Apr 10, 2008 (DVB), Residents of Rangoon and Magwe divisions have complained that electricity shortages have become more regular, and claim that even the limited supply they have is unreliable.[…]
Feb 25, 2008 (DVB), The state-run Electric Power Corporation has been demanding extra money from residents of Tharawaddy township, Bago division, and withholding electricity from those who do not pay,[…]
Jan 28, 2008 (DVB), Residents of Meikhtila township, Mandalay division, have complained that the township Electric Power Corporation has been demanding extra money for late-payment fines and exaggerated bills. One[…]
Jan 4, 2008 (DVB), Officials in Thone Gwa township, Rangoon division, have been demanding up to 30,000 kyat from households to pay for improvements to the electricity supply. Thone Gwa[…]
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Three years since the jade trade was revealed to be worth 31 billion dollars, questions still abound about what improvements have been made by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government to share these revenues.
