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Arakan Oil Watch - Press Conference

Launch of report on Chinese Oil and Gas investment in Burma
Tuesday, October 21, 10.00 am - 11.00 am (FCCT, Bangkok)
Tuesday, October 21, 6–7 pm (Chiiang Mai)

Arakan Oil Watch will launch "Blocking Freedom," a report describing the disruptive impacts of recent Chinese oil exploration on Ramree Island in western Burma, where local oil workers have extracted oil by traditional methods for centuries.

Shwe Gas Bulletin July, 2008

June 15, 2008 (SGB)

Thailand’s state-owned oil company PTTEP will build another inland gas pipeline in Burma soon which will transfer gas from newly discovered offshore gas block M 9 in Moattama to Thailand, Rangoon based media, the Myanmar Times reported.

The Shwe Gas Bulletin

More companies need to withdraw

Burma’s natural resources have been a major provider of the military regime, enabling it to survive through over a decade of economic sanctions from the US and EU. But survival is getting more difficult.

The image was stunning: tens of thousands of saffron-robed Buddhist monks marching through the streets of Rangoon [also known as Yangon], protesting the military dictatorship of Burma. The monks marched in front of the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was seen weeping and praying quietly as they passed. She hadn’t been seen for years. The democratically elected leader of Burma, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since 2003. She is considered the Nelson Mandela of Burma, the Southeast Asian nation renamed Myanmar by the regime.

September 27th, 2007

India, the world's largest democratic country, must immediately review its current foreign policies on Burma, taking into account on ongoing nation-wide protests by the 88 generation students, peoples from all kind of walks and Buddhist monks in the country fearlessly defying the Burmese military government since August 19, 2007. The present protests in Burma have clearly elucidated that Burmese military government does not have legitimacy over the people of the country. Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been unlawfully kept at the most notorious Insein Jail in Rangoon.

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