Locals have sent an open letter to Burma’s President U Htin Kyaw opposing the planned hydropower project to be built in Kachin State’s Chipwi and Tsawlaw townships.
More than 200 forestry police have been deployed across Burma to protect forestry department personnel in a continued crackdown on illegal logging.
Attendees of a workshop form a new 15-member acting committee to draft an updated land policy for Mon State, in the hope that it will influence future federal law.
Attendees at the Mon National Conference promise to stand against the use of a coal power plant by a cement company in Mon State’s Kyaikmayaw Township.
Ethnic Shan advocacy organizations express opposition to the construction of hydropower dam projects on the Salween River in Shan State.
An overloaded boat carrying 17 children to school sinks in Rathedaung Township, leaving a local fisherman to rescue the passengers.
Twenty-six environmental and civil society organizations pen an open letter to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi calling for stop to hydropower projects on the river.
The Shan State parliamentary speaker pledges to reconsider the location for the construction of a new regional govt building after environmental activists voice objections to the proposed site.
Suu Kyi will discuss the fate of the controversial hydropower project on the Ayeyarwady River in Kachin State, and Myanmar’s uncertain peace negotiations.
President Htin Kyaw forms a new commission to evaluate all proposed hydropower projects on the Irrawaddy River prior to their going ahead.
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