Burma fails on natural resource governance: report
Burma has the worst record on natural resource governance in the entire world, according to a new international study, which activists on Thursday described as a “warning” to global investors eyeing oil and gas deals in the country Pipeline protestors face jail for ‘unlawful’ assembly
Ten Arakanese activists, who face up to one year in jail for staging an “unlawful” protest against a controversial China-backed oil and gas pipeline, appeared in court in western Burma on Monday Police crack down on ‘unlawful’ gas pipeline protestors
At least three people were detained and questioned by local authorities in Arakan state on Friday, for their alleged role in staging an unauthorised protest against the Chinese-backed Shwe Gas Pipeline Burma ‘latest flashpoint’ in global land grabbing epidemic
Burma has become the “latest flashpoint in an alarming trend” of global land grabs, which continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the world US senators push for investment in Burma’s oil, gas sectors
US senators are pushing for investment in Burma's oil and gas sector, despite warnings by Aung San Suu Kyi not to partner with the notoriously corrupt state-owned company MOGE Burma faces heightened ‘resource curse’: report
Flood of poorly regulated investment in Burma's energy sector threatens to exacerbate endemic corruption and militarisation Burma’s resource wealth: transparent as oil?
For sanctions against natural resource investment in Burma to be lifted without any transparency provisions is inherently misguided Filipino mining giant eyes Burma deposits
Philex Mining Corp keen to invest in Burma's natural gas and metallic minerals after sending fact-finding delegation to country Global protests target Burma pipeline
Activists in 20 countries hold coordinated protests at Shwe pipeline outside embassies of China, Burma, India and South Korea Thai energy workers strike in Tavoy
Employees of PTT complain of low salaries and poor working conditions as strike threatens to bring further controversy to lucrative venture

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