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In a March 19 Time Magazine feature-length article, βThe Scramble for a Piece of Burma,β Hannah Beech reports on the impacts of oil and gas development in the ethnic territories of military-ruled Burma. The expose focuses in part on Arakan State in western Burma, where a consortium led by South Korea's Daewoo International, in partnership with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the Burmese regime, are developing the Shwe Gas Project, Burma's largest ever natural resource extraction project, intended to transport gas to China via an overland pipeline. The article notes that Shwe Pipeline to China will "likely result in extensive village relocations and dissidents in ethnic Arakan State are currently being rounded up by the authorities and disappeared."