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October 30, 2012 | GlobalPost
China Building Massive Energy Pipeline Through Myanmar
Thousands of workers are building a $2.5 billion pipeline across some of the most challenging terrain in Asia.
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Myanmar (Burma)
October 30, 2012 | GlobalPost
Myanmar: A Power Play on the Irrawaddy River
Chinese hydroelectric projects squeeze Burmese residents, many of whom have been left in the dark.
October 30, 2012 | GlobalPost
Along the Burma Road, China Navigates Path to Energy Security
From Mandalay to Kunming, the central artery between Burma and China reflects an evolving economic and political relationship.
October 04, 2012 | Al Jazeera
Blood and Gold: Inside Burma's Hidden War
Deep in the wilds of northern Burma's Kachin state a brutal civil war has intensified over the past year between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army.
September 16, 2012 | The Economist
Burma's Kachin State: Still Ablaze
After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by Burma’s new government has thawed its relations with the West at dizzying speed.
September 05, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Burma: A New Capital and Not Much More
Pulitzer Center grantee Jason Motlagh is skeptical as a top government official in Burma's new capital shares grandiose plans to develop the country "at great speed."
August 30, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Burma: Behind Enemy Lines -- Part II
A civil war grinds on in northern Burma's Kachin state despite political reforms in the capital. Here's part two of two dispatches from both sides of the conflict.
August 28, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Burma: Behind Enemy Lines
A civil war grinds on in northern Burma's Kachin state despite political reforms in the capital. Here's part one of two dispatches from both sides of the conflict.
July 12, 2012 | The Economist
Myanmar's Minorities: Caught in the Middle
Some 75,000 ethnic Kachins have been displaced in northern Burma (also known as Myanmar) and another 10,000 have fled across the Chinese border. Is this the new, “softer” Burma?
July 09, 2012 | The Washington Post
The Kachin: Washed Away by the Myitsone Dam
A Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam in Burma is stalled for now but has already displaced thousands of ethnic Kachin. Its completion threatens a fragile ecosystem and a peace agreement with the rebels.
July 03, 2012 | Southeast Asia Globe
Inescapable Oppression for the Rohingya
10,000 Rohingya refugees live in swampy marshlands of Bangladesh that are little better than sewers. Back home in Burma this Muslim community fares even worse.
June 29, 2012 | The Washington Post
In Burma, Civil War Grinds on Far From Capital
Deep in the hills of northern Burma’s Kachin State, a civil war grinds on between government forces and Kachin rebels, calling into question the more conciliatory signals emanating from the capital..