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| Yawd Serk to meet President Thein Sein in Kengtung Posted: 08 May 2015 05:51 AM PDT Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), and President Thein Sein will hold a meeting today in Kengtung township, eastern Shan State, a news source reported.  "The visit of the President was to attend the opening ceremony of the Laos-Myanmar Friendship Bridge across the Mekong River connecting Palaew/Kenglap sub-township in Tachileik district in eastern Shan State with Xieng Kok in Luang Namtha State in Laos. As RCSS is active in this region, they were invited for a meeting. Details of the meeting have not been provided, said Lt-Col. Sai Ngern, RCSS Peace Team Secretary. Three ethnic armed groups including the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) were invited to meet the President, he said. According to an unconfirmed report, the visit of the President was to strengthen friendship with the ethnic armed groups in the eastern region as the President used to be commander of the Triangle Region, and to urge ethnic armed groups to support the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) because during the summit in Pangsang, the UWSA and NDAA did not agree to the draft NCA signed on 31 March. |
| New hydropower dam to be built in Muse township Posted: 08 May 2015 05:44 AM PDT A new hydroelectric dam is being planned on the Nampaw river, Muse township, northern Shan State, according to a news source.  The planned dam will be constructed by Great Hor Kham Public Company Limited. Construction will start in October 2015 and will take three years. The company has said that the electricity produced by the Nampaw dam will be used in Muse township and will not be sold to China, according to Sai Kao, a Muse resident. People have not yet staged any protest, as the dam construction is quite far from the town. On May 1, the company team held a discussion with local communities about the impacts of the project. They explained that the dam would flood about 594 acres of land, including 115 acres of the stream area, and 479 acres on both sides of the stream. "There are about 60 acres of rice fields in the area where the dam will be built. But these fields were destroyed when the river last flooded. Now that villagers have heard that there will be a dam built, they are not bothering to cultivate the fields anymore," said Sai Lek, a youth in Muse. The company is planning to conduct an environmental impact assessment, which will be presented to township and district level officials of the Department of Environmental Conservation and Forestry. They say they will not construct the dam without approval. A source close to the company has said that more than 2,000 agar-wood trees, 400 rubber trees and uncultivated land will be damaged by the dam. Therefore the company is planning to provide compensation at the rate of 35,000 kyats for each agar-wood tree, and 45,000 kyats for each rubber tree. |
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