Part of a joint venture between China Power Investment (CPI) and Myanmar's regime-friendly Asia World, the Myitsone Dam is expected to have a generating capacity of 6,000 megawatts of electricity ...

The largest, the Myitsone dam, was canceled in a response to popular pressure as one of the first actions of Myanmar's current reform-leaning president, however China is eager to see work on it ...

China's deepening role in Myanmar, marked by the recent delivery of FTC-2000G jets and growing military cooperation, puts the ...

Much media attention in Myanmar is focussed on China’s apparent efforts to revive the stalled Myitsone dam, its role in advising the Myanmar government on developing a new hydropower strategy white ...

The SAC is also revisiting large infrastructure projects such as the Dawei deep-sea port and the Myitsone Dam. Given the ...

But as well as calling a lasting ceasefire, the government needs to begin addressing minority concerns on such issues as the construction of the Myitsone Dam in Kachin State, a project that ...

Jar Lie was forced to leave her 40 acres of farming land to make way for the dam In 2011, construction work on a massive dam project in Myanmar's restive Kachin state was halted after large protests.