A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions. While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on the environment could prove to be disastrous.
A recent agreement involves…
ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: How have national and state governments the world over come to “own” huge expanses of territory under the rubric of “national forest,” “national parks”, or “wastelands”? The two contradictory statements in the above epigraph illustrate that not all colonial…
A collection of essays, mostly written by activists, on Burma's bilateral and multilateral relations: ASEAN-Burma, Bangladesh-Burma, China-Burma, India-Burma, Thailand-Burma, International Policies towards Burma - Western governments, NGOs and multilateral institutions. "Report looking…
I Thai perceptions of Burma;
II Ties with Thailand: a short history;
III Border trade from 1948–1999;
IV Evolution of Thailand’s constructive engagement policy;
V Thai-Burmese technical cooperation 123VI Key issues;
VII New Thai policy towards Burma;
VIII…
Contents:
Acronyms;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
About the authors;
Executive summary;
Introduction;
Background;
Relations with ASEAN;
Bilateral relations;
International policies towards Burma;
Conclusions...
1 ASEAN-Burma…
Based on the FAO-ESCAP project to develop 'national water visions' in the Asia-Pacific region that would set out each country's goals for sound water management to meet the needs of all for this vital natural resource over the next two decades. Contains four Southeast Asia case…
A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.
A comprehensive and detailed compilation of statistics on farming, livestock, fishery, forestry and nutrition in Asia-Pacific countries for the above period. A handy comparison of changes over the past decade in the use of agricultural land and farm inputs and production of crops, livestock,…
The paper briefly reviews the mandates and main activities of some major governmental and non-governmental international organizations concerned with the management of forest genetic resources, and the role that such organizations play in this field. It is noted that national forest genetic…
People from Burma have become the major group of displaced persons in Thailand. Most of them are currently being sheltered
along the Thai-Burma border, particularly in the Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ranong. It is
estimated that there are some 40,000…
It is estimated that the overall number of Burmese migrants in Thailand is somewhere in between 800,000 and one million.
Cross-border migration into Thailand has steadily increased in recent years. Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Thais
have gone to work abroad. Refugees…