Press Coverage: Shwe gas and Myanmar-China oil projects

News Articles (English)

• Police crack down on 'unlawful' gas pipeline protestors (April 19, 2013)
• Oil pipeline in Myanmar mutually beneficial (April 19, 2013)
• Hundreds Protest Pipeline in Burma's Rakhine State (April 18, 2013)
• Authorities permit demonstration against Chinese company in Arakan: says activist (April 9, 2013)
• Experts warn against turning Shwe pipeline on while Kachin conflict continues (April 1, 2013)
• Rakhine residents plan signature campaign for share of gas to be exported to China (March 28, 2013)
• The Pipeline and it's Discontents (March 7, 2013)
• Myanmar-China pipeline destroyed local people’s rice farms in Arakan State (Jan. 24, 2013)
• Myanmar-China pipeline construction under scrutiny (Jan. 14, 2013)
• Govt Accused of Ongoing Abuses at Shwe Pipeline (Nov. 7, 2012)
• 1,000 Palaung remain displaced due to conflict, pipeline (Nov. 7, 2012)
• NGOs Call for Suspension of Shwe Gas Project (Oct. 3, 2012)
• Wastes of Foreign Project cause damage to local paddy farms (Sept. 21, 2012)
• Marine Life on Arakan Coast in Danger of Extinction from Mine Blasts (May 26, 2012)
• Pipeline Compensation Causes Disunity Among Villagers (May 16, 2012)
• Third Demonstration Held In Malaysia Calling to Halt Shwe Gas Project (April 28, 2012)
• Mining coral reefs for gas pipeline probably caused the deaths of two 20-feet long whale sharks (March 15, 2012)
• Nine Shwe Gas Campaigners Detained and Interrogated in Rangoon (March 2, 2012)
• Arakan Suffering for China's Pipeline (July 20, 2011)
• Burma to "double output" of gas by 2020 (Nov. 19, 2009)
• China's Burma Oil Bonanza (Nov. 19, 2009)
• Daewoo Named in Human Rights Complaint (Nov. 4, 2008)

News Articles (Myanmar Language)

• The local people in Maday Island, Kyauk Phyu township demonstrate against CNPC company (April 18, 2013)
• The real Land’s owners do not receive the compensation from Shwe Gas pipeline project in Ann township, Rakhaing State (March 28, 2013)
• The waste from the Shwe Gas Project impacts on local people’s livelihood in Kyauk Phyu Township (March 26, 2013)
• The people from Kyauk Phyu Township do not trust the government statement that they will receive electricity in the town (March 23, 2013)
• Many mountains in Kyauk Phyu township, Arakan are destroyed for Shwe Gas project that affects the local people’s livelihood (Feb. 22, 2013)
• Kyauk Phyu’s Cultural Pagoda mountain (Kyauk Ta Loan pagoda) was dynamited for Shwe Project by Myanmar Golden Crown and LIB 543 (Feb. 20, 2013)
• In Kyauk Phyu township, Arakan State, environmental damage begins because of oil and gas project (Feb. 7, 2013)
• The pipeline project construction by Punj Lloyd (India) company will be done in May but too many Rakhine farmers have not yet received compensation. (Feb. 7, 2013)
• Foreign investments impacts increase for local people in Kyauk Phyu Township, Rakhine State (Jan. 7, 2013)
• Although local organizations request temporary stoppage of the pipeline project, the gas  and oil will be transported to China on May 30 and September 30 in 2013. ( Dec.  29,  2012)
• Villagers from nine villages in Minbu Township, Magway Division will demonstrate on Dec 10 regarding losing their crops because of the gas pipeline (Dec. 5, 2012)
• Local workers stop working for India company [Punj Lloyd] constructing Shwe gas project because they  not received  wages (Oct. 22, 2012)
• Farming lands in Kyauk Phyu Township, Arakan State, are damaged because of the waste from foreign projects (Sept. 19, 2012)
• The construction of 20 inch Magway-Yaynanchaung pipeline destroys crops from 9 villages (Sept. 5, 2012)
• RWU [Rakhine Women’s Union] demonstrate in front of Chinese Embassy to stop Shwe Gas Project (April 3, 2012)