By Bill O’Toole | Myanmar Times | Friday, 24 January 2014 Discrimination against the Chin ethnic group remained prevalent nationwide last year, the Chin Human Rights Organization said in its annual report. An ethnic Chin man smokes a pipe in Chin State. (Wa Lone/The Myanmar Times)An ethnic Chin man smokes a pipe in Chin State. (Wa
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Activists want authorities to address dislocation, pollution concerns By Venus Upadhayaya, Epoch Times | January 17, 2014 BANGALORE, India – Activists and environmentalists are concerned that the 242-mile-long Kaladan transit project linking India’s northeast to Burma is being built without input from the people who live along its length. The project involves new roads and
Written by Nava Thakuria MONDAY, 22 JULY 2013 Port, river project gives India’s eastern states access to the sea By 2015, a US$214 million port project at the town of Sittwe, at the mouth of the Kaladan River on the Myanmar side of the Bay of Bengal, is expected to provide the 60 million people of
Thursday 11, July 2013 Bill O’Toole Myanmar Times On the eve of U Thein Sein’s presidential visit to Europe, The EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium held a public hearing this week on the ongoing human rights abuses in Chin State. “What we really hope is that the European Parliament…will raise these questions with Thein Sein
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:56 Reinhard HohlerReinhard Hohler, Chiang Mai (11.06.2013) The multi-million dollar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project – slated for completion in 2015 – will see the construction of a combined inland waterway and highway transportation system connecting Mizoram State in Northeast India with a Bay of Bengal deepsea port at Sittwe, Rakhain
OpEdNews Op Eds 6/11/2013 at 21:33:34 By Zin Linn An alliance of civil-society organizations launched a report which rejects any forms of human rights violations during the implementation of the Kaladan Project, and calls for accountability for all stakeholders involved in the project, especially towards India and Burma Governments. The report -‘ One cannot step
