KTO-USA: China speeds ahead with Myitsone dam despite civil war in northern Burma Press Release

Posted by Admin Wednesday, August 31, 2011


By: Kachin Development Networking Group
Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:19
Seven hundred Chinese laborers are working day and night shearing off hilltops, laying tunnels, and building embankments at the Myitsone, the source of Burma’s Irrawaddy River, in a race to complete the country’s largest dam on schedule despite ongoing armed conflict in the area.