It is reported that Myanmar's Public Works of the Ministry of Construction and Japan's JFE Engineering Corporation has formed a joint venture to construct the steel mill in Yangon's Thakayta Township to undertake production of steel ...
POSCO Coated & Color Steel Co. ,Ltd. (POSCO C&C) planned to build a new color-coating sheet plant with the military-run company Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL) in Myanmar. It's known that POSCO C&C will hold 70% stakes in the joint ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, steel
Reuters reported Myanmar's president asked opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi to head an investigation into the planned expansion of a copper mine that has led to evictions and protests that were forcibly put down by riot police this ...
Myanmar's reformist government is under fire for its brutal crackdown on peaceful protests against the copper mining project in Monywa, Sagaing Division. The police action which left several monks seriously injured has enraged the Myanmar ...
Tags: copper mining project, crushing resistance, Latbadaung mine
Several demonstrators have been injured after Burmese security forces launched a crackdown against protesters who've been occupying part of a Chinese owned copper mine. Authorities said that riot police used tear gas and water cannon to ...
Burma's opposition leader and chairperson of the Lower House's Committee for the Rule of Law and Tranquility, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 25th 2012 spoke out about the furore surrounding the Latpadaung copper mine project in Sagaing ...
The 200 protesters who continue to sit in at Ledi camp on Latpadaung Mountain in Sagaing Division are suffering from a lack of food, water and medicine. Mr Aung Soe Civic society group leader said that “I am one of those living in ...
Tags: Monywa Copper, mine, lack of food, Latpadaung Mountain
Myanmar Times reported that the Pyithu Hluttaw has unanimously approved a motion to form an independent commission to investigate the Letpadaung copper project in Sagaing Region and whether a planned expansion should be allowed to proceed. ...
Tags: Letpadaung Mine Probe, Letpadaung copper project, copper, mine