Business Dawei Lead Story News
Italian-Thai Development Plc is ready to defend itself if the Burmese government decides to seize the concession of the Dawei megaproject awarded to the Thai contractor but says it has not been informed about any such decision.
The Thai government has named a special task force headed by Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal in its latest move to kick-start the massive Dawei project in eastern Burma.
Thais emerge positive from tripartite meeting on Dawei after Burma agreed to secure loans from the Asian Development Bank.
Attempts by Thai and Burmese officials to persuade Japan to invest in the Dawei Special Economic Zone have ended fruitlessly, DVB has learned
Despite protests by displaced villagers along the Dawei-Kanchanaburi Highway, the Thai premier tells Shwe Mann they must speed up the development of the industrial zone.
While the Dawei deep-sea port and industrial zone in southern Burma is said to be on life support, regional economic inertia and Thailand’s political landscape may keep the project afloat
The Mon army spokesman confirmed that dialogue focused on measures to resolve the territory conflict, and to prevent clashes from recurring.
Lead Story Media News Tenasserim
“Our media outlet takes sole responsibility for the publication of each article,” said Myo Aung. “As editor-in-chief of Tanintharyi Weekly, it is I who will face any legal proceedings.”
Energy Environment Lead Story News
Locals and civil society organisations in Karen State are pushing back against plans for a coal-fired power plant in Hpa-an Township, where the project still has the blessing of the state’s leading official.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
Health officials in Burma have sought to calm fears among the public over the outbreak of H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Burmese health officials said on Tuesday that two more people had died after contracting H1N1 influenza in the largest city, Rangoon, a day after the government said more than a dozen people had contracted the virus known as swine flu.
Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a Burmese Army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea in early June with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Sunday.
A civilian fishing boat found part of the tail section from a Burmese army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea last week with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Thursday.
Accidents Lead Story News Tenasserim
The ill-fated, Chinese-manufactured Y-8-200F aircraft was en route to Rangoon from Myeik when it went missing last week.
The bodies of over half the passengers aboard the ill-fated military plane that went down over the Andaman Sea last week have been recovered, with search and rescue efforts having brought ashore 76 corpses out of the 122 people on the flight.
China will offer support and assistance for Burma’s follow-up efforts after a military plane crashed off the Southeast Asian country’s southern coast with 122 people on board, Chinese state media said.
Burma cremates 10 of the 31 bodies pulled from the waters off its southern coast as the hunt for a military transport plane that went missing over the Andaman Sea with 122 people aboard stretched into a third day.
As search efforts entered their third day on Friday, Burma’s military said it had recovered the bodies of 31 men, women and children from the military aircraft that crashed into the Andaman Sea earlier this week, with hopes fading for the survival of any of the 122 passengers onboard.
Lead Story Military News Tenasserim
“As of 3:30pm on 8 June, 29 bodies – one man, 20 women and eight children – have been recovered by the team,” says military statement.
Three bodies–two adults and a child–were found by a navy ship in the Andaman.
Aviation authorities on Wednesday afternoon lost contact with a military aircraft carrying more than 100 passengers, with the plane en route to Rangoon from Myeik when it dropped off the radar in southeastern Burma.
Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story News
The government has taken the first step to address the rampant problem of child labour throughout the country by drafting a five-year National Action Plan to eliminate child labour.
Eighty Burmese and Thai civil society organisations issued a joint statement this week calling for the withdrawal of lawsuits filed against The Nation and one of the newspaper’s journalists, whose reporting on a Thai company’s mining venture in Dawei described the damage that the operation was causing to local livelihoods and the environment.
Business Lead Story News Politics
An international legal association is calling for a moratorium on expansion work at Burma’s special economic zones (SEZs), a key component of the country’s development agenda.
Lead Story Natural resources News Tenasserim
The Heinda Tin Mine is operated by Myanmar Pongpipat Co Ltd which is owned by a Thai company but registered in Burma.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
An accommodation zone for migrant workers in Thailand, a government project piloted in Samut Sakhon and Ranong, has received positive feedback from Burmese workers who now find themselves in better and more affordable living conditions.
The Thai private sector is being urged to set up industrial estates or special economic zones (SEZs) in Burma as the neighbouring country emerges as a magnet for foreign investment.
Thai provinces on the Andaman coast are keen to expand maritime tourism to Burma as part of regional efforts to draw more tourists to the two countries.
Conflict Lead Story News Tenasserim
The New Mon State Party reported clashing with the Karen National Union in southern Burma’s costal Tenasserim Division on Wednesday.
