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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    ... Karenni people celebrated three kinds of pole festivals in a year. The first one is called Tya-Ee-Lu-Boe-Plya. During this festival, the people went to their paddy fields, vegetable farms, picked the premature fruits and brought it to the Ee-Lu-pole. They put the premature fruits on altar, thank god and then pray for good fruits and good harvest. The second one called Tya-Ee-Lu-Phu-Seh. In this festival they pray god to bless the teenagers with good conducts, and good healths. The third one is Tya-Ee-Lu-Du. The festival concerned to everyone.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    Für den Energieexport nach Thailand will Burmas Militärregierung einen Großstaudamm bauen, für den Tausende Angehörige der Shan umgesiedelt werden sollen. Der Tasang Staudamm soll am Fluss Salween im zentralen Shan Bundesstaat entstehen. Teile des Gebietes sind bereits entvölkert.
    Überblick der Geselschaft für bedrohte Völker über die Pläne zum Bau des Tasang-Staudamms und die Konsequenzen für die einheimische Bevölkerung und die Umwelt.
    key words: Tasang-dam, forced relocation, consequences for local population, environmen

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    It is estimated that the overall number of Burmese migrants in Thailand is somewhere in between 800,000 and one million.
    Cross-border migration into Thailand has steadily increased in recent years. Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Thais
    have gone to work abroad. Refugees from Burma, Laos and Cambodia have since filled this labour shortage in Thailand.
    However, many of them are undocumented, illegal workers and thus constitute the most vulnerable section of the work force.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    People from Burma have become the major group of displaced persons in Thailand. Most of them are currently being sheltered
    along the Thai-Burma border, particularly in the Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ranong. It is
    estimated that there are some 40,000 children from Burma under the age of 15 accompanying their parents. In addition,
    thousands of unaccompanied children are driven across the border by the desperate circumstances in Burma. ...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    France, Israel, Germany, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, China, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Malta, Japan, Zambia, Malaysia, Sweden, Guatemala, Italy, Indonesia, Netherlands, Canada, Congo, Iran, Brazil, New Zealand

    Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 REP

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