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The Online Burma/Myanmar Library (OBL) is a non-profit online research library mainly in English and Burmese serving academics, activists, diplomats, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs and other Burmese and international actors. It is also, of course, open to the general public. Though we provide lists of Burma/Myanmar news sources, the Library’s main content is not news but in-depth articles, reports, laws, videos and links to other websites, We provide a search engine (database and full text) and an alphabetical list of categories and sub-categories, but the Library is best accessed through browsing the 100 or so categories which lead to sub- and sub-sub categories. These tools should be used in combination.
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Displaying 1041 - 1045 of 1151Burmanet News Land disputes archive
Articles on this theme from 2004 to 2016
The Shwe Gas Movement
The SHWE Gas Movement is concerned with a natural gas pipeline project presently unfolding in Western Burma...
In cooperation with Burma's military junta, a consortium of Indian and Korean corporations are currently exploring gas fields off the coast of Arakan State in Western Burma. Discovered in December 2003, these fields--labeled A-1, or "Shwe" (the Burmese word for gold)--are expected to hold one of the largest gas yields in Southeast Asia. These Shwe fields could well become the Burmese military government's largest single source of foreign income...
Ivanhoe Mines
Most foreign mining in Burma is done by Ivanhoe. Click on Copper Operations, then on Monywa or search for Myanmar or Monywa. Gold also.
Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Research on refugees/migrants, mostly Thailand-related
Community Forestry in Myanmar (Burma)
Under support from the DFID PyoePin programme, Dr Kyaw Tint, the head of ECCDI, a leading Yangon based NGO led a research project to understand the current status of Community Forestry in the country, with technical support from Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski. Field study was conducted in October – December 2010, and we presented our findings at a national workshop.
The three main outputs of the project are available to download here: