China’s occupation of Tibet makes it an “upstream controller” of seven South Asian rivers including the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze, and Mekong, which flow into ...

A garment factory in Yangon / MWD A garment worker in Yangon’s Shwepyithar Industrial Zone told The Irrawaddy that many skilled workers had quit at his factory, forcing the owner to fill the vacancies ...

More than 30,000 people have signed a petition in opposition to a series of dams planned for the Salween River in Burma’s east, Mizzima reports. The petition, demanding an immediate halt to six dams ...