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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 1997
    Myanmar

    ...This report, "Migrating With Hope: Burmese Women Working In Thailand and
    The Sex Industry" attempts to present and highlight the needs, interests, and
    realities of undocumented migrant women from Burma working as sex-workers
    in Thailand. We look at the lives of women in Burma, the migration processes,
    processes of entry into the sex-industry, and factors which govern women's wellbeing
    or suffering during the time of migration in Thailand. The authors hope

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 1997
    Myanmar

    Recently, outspoken Thai Democrat MP Abhist Vejajiva, expressed his concern over the illegal population in Thailand, saying the problem of illegal workers would become "more severe" in the coming years and could lead to social turmoil if the government does not quickly intervene by producing a viable and widely accepted national strategy.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 1997
    Myanmar

    After the annexation of Upper Burma in 1886, the modern Burmese oil industry expanded at Yenangyaung, the long-standing center of hand-dug wells worked by twinza. An earlier attempt to establish a commercial industry in Arakan in the late 1870s was thereby eclipsed. On the islands off the Arakan coast -- Ramree, Cheduba, and the Boronga Islands -- British explorers had drawn attention to oil pools and seepage. In 1878, the first modern oil well in Burma was drilled on Eastern Boronga Island.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 1997
    Myanmar

    The Karen State of Kawthoolei has been heavily dependent on teak extraction to fund the Karen National
    Union struggle against the Burmese military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
    Raymond Bryant explores the social and economic structure of Kawthoolei, and the way in which resource
    extraction was more than simply a source of revenue � it was also an integral part of the assertion of Karen
    sovereignty...

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