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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2008
    Myanmar

    Antipersonnel landmines continued to be deployed in significant numbers in Burma during 2007, despite a growing international consensus that the use of landmines is unacceptable and that their use should be unconditionally ceased. As of mid-August 2007, 155 countries, or 80 percent of the world’s nations were State Parties to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (also known as and henceforth referred to as the ‘Mine Ban Treaty’), leaving only 40 countries outside the treaty.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    Myanmar

    WHEN Snr-Gen Than Shwe relocated the seat of Burma’s military government to a site some 320 km (200 miles) north of the former capital, Rangoon, he did so without any fanfare. Acting solely on his prerogatives as the undisputed ruler of the country, he offered no explanations to the Burmese people or the rest of the world. The move was announced only after it had become a fait accompli.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    Myanmar

    Naypyidaw, now three years old, was designed and built to serve as the seat of Burma’s military government. For the ordinary Burmese who have to live and work there, it’s a city without a hear

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Critics dismiss Asean plan for free movement of labor...

    "DESPITE the high-minded ideals of the Asean Vision 2020 plan launched more than a decade ago by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), cynics continue to dismiss its aim of labor mobility in a “community of caring societies” as just so much humbug.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2008
    Myanmar

    Abstract: "While international humanitarian access in Burma has opened up
    over the past decade and a half, the ongoing debate regarding the appropriate
    relationship between politics and humanitarian assistance remains unresolved.
    This debate has become especially limiting in regards to protection
    measures for internally displaced persons (IDPs) which are increasingly seen
    to fall within the mandate of humanitarian agencies. Conventional IDP
    protection frameworks are biased towards a top-down model of politicallyaverse

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Myanmar

    Myanmar has a total land area of 676,577 sq km with a population of 57.50 million. Total net sown area is 11.67 ml ha with the cropping intensity of 157.1%. Forest cover, 33.44 ml ha accounted for nearly half of Myanmar's land area. Presently, only 60% of the 17.19 ml ha classified for agricultural production is being exploited.
    Myanmar has a predominantly agricultural economy and agriculture sector contributed 45% of GDP, 11% of export earning and employed 63% of its labour force...

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2008
    Myanmar

    A Japanese study illustrates how farmers created an agricultural market in spite of the military government’s bureaucrats...

    "Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar" by Ikuko Okamoto. National University of Singapore Press, 2008...
    "THE devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis and spiraling global food prices have placed even more pressure on the agricultural sector of Burma, once the world’s largest rice exporter and potentially one of Asia’s most prodigious producers of agricultural staples.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2008
    Myanmar

    Judging by the increase in landing volume, Myanmar fisheries is developing fast. Due to
    the amount of export earning fisheries sector have its role as one of the main contributors to
    the national GDP. Thus fisheries are recognized as an important economic sector for the
    country. The fisheries landing is significantly increasing in recent years. It is more than three
    times larger than that of 1990s.
    In 1990-91 the earning form fisheries export was only US$ 13 million. It has been

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2008
    Myanmar

    BURMA
    LANDMINE
    ISSUE
    2009: UN Security Council - act now!...Understand us...KNU LANDMINE POLICY...Mine incidents rise...Landmine deaths double...Pizza-oven helps
    mine victims walk...Worried about mines, but who will feed us?...How to help -- when there's no doctor...Ranger's deliver aid...No place to call home...Landmines show no mercy...Once were enemies...More attacks - more landmines...Uncle Maw Keh offers
    hope to landmine victims...Burma's Killing Fields...Lucky to be alive...

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2008
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary:
    "A team of Karen researchers from the Karen Environmental and Social Action
    Network has undertaken this study to begin documentation of the rich
    biodiversity of Khoe Kay, a bend in the Salween River that is part of their
    homeland. They also want to document and expose the severe threats faced by this
    stretch of the Salween, both from large dams and ongoing militarization.

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