One of the world’s "biodiversity hotspots" is under siege, as a growing number of business interests
seek to cash in the "peace" in northern Burma’s Kachin State... A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions.
While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on
the environment could prove to be disastrous...
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2001Myanmar
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2001Myanmar
Ranong is the second largest Burmese community in Thailand, where many migrants work in the fishing and its related industries. However, the community has been hit by an economic downturn in part caused by the loss of fishing concessions from Burma.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2001Myanmar
An American dentist travels deep into the world of Burma's Internally Displaced Persons, and discovers a people driven by fear into an uncertain future. Armed with a Colt .45, American dentist Shannon Allison is on a dangerous mission of mercy: to bring emergency medical assistance to Internally Displaced Persons inside Burma. Veteran photojournalist Thierry Falise reports from Burma's war-torn jungles on efforts to assist these victims of endemic conflict.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2001Myanmar
Elephants are becoming the latest victims of landmines planted along the war-torn Thai-Burma border.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2001Myanmar
The Thai government's latest resolution to control the growing migrant worker population lacks
resolve.
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