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Kansai Electric Power Signs Consulting Contract with Myanmar

                   Kyodo News ( August 03, 2001 )


                   OSAKA, Aug 03, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Kansai 
Electric Power
                   Co. said Friday it has signed a contract with Myanmar's 
state-run utility firm
                   for technical consulting to develop hydroelectric power 
plants, becoming the
                   first Japanese concern to take part in large-scale power 
projects in the
                   military-ruled country.

                         Under the contract, Kansai Electric will assist 
the Myanmar concern in
                   feasibility studies, designs and construction of such 
plants at 12 locations over
                   the next five years as part of Myanmar's larger project 
to alleviate power
                   shortages, the company said.

                         The contract is estimated to be worth around 300 
million yen, Kansai
                   Electric officials said.

                         The company has already established a 
representative office late last
                   month in Yangon, with five workers dispatched there.


                   2001 Kyodo News (C) Established 1945


Shan Herald Agency for News, August 16, 2001

A New hydro-electricity plant to be built near the Salween

A New hydro-electricity plant to be built near the Salween A new
hydro-electric power station is to be constructed 30 miles northwest
of the Tasarng Bridge over the Salween, said sources fleeing from the
area.


"It would be near the Fahpa Waterfall on the Teng River that is some
40 ft  high," said one source from Kengtawng, Mongnai Township.

A Burmese survey team, led by U Thaung Htun, was there on 12 August.
It was  estimated that 250 kw of power would be generated during the
rainy season  and 75 kw in the dry season.

It was not however known when the plant was to be constructed that
would house two 100 kw generators.

Logging, as a result, has been going on the area, some 850 square
miles, since March. The contractors are reported to be Law Hsinghan of
Asia World  and Mahaja of Homong.

Meanwhile, operations at Tang Palao, the projected dam site north of
Tasarng, appeared to have ceased altogether for two months, said
refugees  who rafted down the Salween.

"We saw only a sergeant by the name of Aung Myint with a handful of
soldiers from IB 225 at Tang Palao collecting fees from the
wayfarers," said one. "No security forces were seen on the west bank
either."

The GMS Power, based in Bangkok, had been active in the area,
conducting feasibility studies, from 1997 until late last year.
According to Japan-based Mekong Watch, the installed capacity of the
proposed dam, would  be 6,400 mega-watts, while the scale of the
project would be $3 billion  "for technical aspects only."

Villagers forced to leave for dam building in Sagaing Division

August 7, 2001
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)

Government's plan for building a dam and hydroelectric power station has
made hundreds of villagers homeless in Bu-Da-Lin Township in Sagaing
Division, according to reports coming from Upper Burma. The Burmese
authorities have ordered the villagers in five villages of Bu-Da-Lin
Township for a hydroelectric plan in the area. As a result, villagers
have been leaving their villages and staying in the empty farms far from
the villages.

These five villages situated on the eastern bank of Chin-Dwin River
include Moataw, Thaminchan, Innbat and Laymyay.

According to some villagers from Thaminchan and Innbat, Secretary (1) of
the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Lt. Gen. Khin
Nyunt came to the area in January this year and explained the leaders of
five villages about the government's hydroelectric plan which will be
implemented with the assistance of China. They said that government has
promised them to give expenses for their resettlement and rehabilitation
in a nearby area.

The electric and construction materials were brought into the area in
May this year and technicians have already arrived for the work along
with soldiers for the security. Last month, the soldiers who are
stationing now in the area ordered the villagers to move from the
villages, giving ten-day notice. Showing as an example, the soldiers
bulldozed some houses in Thaminchan village.

At present, the villagers are leaving from their villages and some are
living in their own farms, which are quite far from their original
villages. Mizzima has learnt that those who do not own farm have to live
in empty wild land without any shelter.





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