Burmese Junta Profits From Chinese Pipeline – Graeme Jenkins

From Telegraph:

China is building pipelines to carry huge new gas supplies from Burma after securing new contracts with the Rangoon junta.

A 900-mile pipeline is to be built – possibly this year – to take gas from the coast of Burma to China after Beijing won contracts to explore three large offshore areas for gas.

Some of the contracts were awarded three days after China and Russia jointly vetoed a UN resolution proposed by the US a year ago. [Full Text]

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