Monday, March 12, 2012

Myanmar signs oil exploration pact with Chinese JV


11 March 2012
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's state oil and gas company 
has signed an exploration contract with a Chinese-Myanmar joint venture. 
The state-run Kyemon newspaper reported Sunday that the contract 
between Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise and Myanmar private company 
Aye Myint Khine Co. Ltd. working with China's EPI Holdings Ltd. covers an 
onshore exploration block in the Magway region of central Myanmar. 

China wants Myanmar to restart dam project


12 March 2012
BEIJING: Chinese officials have urged Myanmar’s government to 
restart a Chinese-backedmultibillion-dollar power dam project that was 
suspended apparently without notice last year.