Residents Refuse to Move for Australia-Myanmar Joint Venture Mine
The Bawdwin mine in 2015. / The Irrawaddy
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By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint 27 January 2021
Yangon Residents living near the Bawdwin mine which was once one of the globe’s largest sources of lead and an important source of silver and zinc have refused to move to make way for more mining.
The Bawdwin Joint Venture (BJV) Co Ltd is planning to resume operations at Bawdin, about 22 km from Namtu in northern Shan State.
The joint venture includes two domestic companies – EAP Global Mining Co Ltd and Win Myint Mo Industries Co Ltd which have a 24.5 percent of stake each – and Australia’s Myanmar Metals Limited with a 51 percent stake.
Myanmar’s Migrants Face Discrimination Amid Surging COVID-19 in Thailand
Myanmar embassy officials led by Minister-Counselor U Maw Ba La arranges to transfer the Myanmar migrants–who tested COVID-19 positive and were quarantined previously at home–to the temporary field hospital in Mahachai’s football ground on January 8, 2021. / Myanmar Labour Attaché Office / Facebook
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By Nyein Nyein 9 January 2021
Less than a month after Thailand’s leaders blamed Myanmar migrant workers for the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Samut Sakhon’s wholesale seafood market, discrimination has become a part of Myanmar migrants’ daily lives in everything from transportation to banking.
Ever since Dec. 17 when a 67-year-old Thai vendor working in Mahachai’s shrimp wholesale market tested positive for COVID-19, the market, where many Myanmar migrants work, has been in lockdown. In news reports over the following days, Thailand’s health minister and then prime minister accused illega
More Than 600 Myanmar Migrants Infected in Thai COVID-19 Outbreak
Myanmar migrant workers queue to be tested for COVID-19 at a wholesale shrimp market in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province on Dec. 19, 2020. / Office of the Myanmar Labor Attaché / Facebook
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By Nyein Nyein 21 December 2020
Some 600 Myanmar migrants working in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province are among more than 800 confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to the Talay Thai wholesale shrimp market, the site of the country’s worst outbreak so far, which was first reported last Thursday.
On Monday morning, 126 new cases were reported in Samut Sakhon, taking the total linked to the outbreak to 820 since Dec. 17. Of these, about 600 are Myanmar workers, according to U Aung Kyaw, the director of the advocacy group Migrant Workers Rights Network.