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Mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com specializing in Burmese news Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:39:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com AFP: Huge quake strikes off India’s Andaman Islands http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/afp-huge-quake-strikes-off-indias-andaman-islands/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/afp-huge-quake-strikes-off-indias-andaman-islands/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:39:03 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/afp-huge-quake-strikes-off-indias-andaman-islands/ ]]> AFP: Huge quake strikes off India’s Andaman Islands

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]]> http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/afp-huge-quake-strikes-off-indias-andaman-islands/feed/ 0 mandalar Soft landing for journalists who faced hard labour – Americas, World – The Independent http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/soft-landing-for-journalists-who-faced-hard-labour-americas-world-the-independent/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/soft-landing-for-journalists-who-faced-hard-labour-americas-world-the-independent/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:36:55 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/soft-landing-for-journalists-who-faced-hard-labour-americas-world-the-independent/ ]]> Soft landing for journalists who faced hard labour – Americas, World – The Independent

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]]> http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/nuclear-plant-in-burma-sharing-thought/feed/ 0 mandalar BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | The choices facing Burma’s military http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/bbc-news-world-asia-pacific-the-choices-facing-burmas-military/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/bbc-news-world-asia-pacific-the-choices-facing-burmas-military/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:27:37 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/bbc-news-world-asia-pacific-the-choices-facing-burmas-military/ ]]> BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | The choices facing Burma’s military

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]]> http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/clinton-and-gore-together-again-nytimes-com/feed/ 0 mandalar Myanmar-China border trade fair to open in Muse http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/myanmar-china-border-trade-fair-to-open-in-muse_english_xinhua/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/myanmar-china-border-trade-fair-to-open-in-muse_english_xinhua/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:09:23 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/myanmar-china-border-trade-fair-to-open-in-muse_english_xinhua/ ]]> Myanmar-China border trade fair to open in Muse

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]]> http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/myanmar-china-border-trade-fair-to-open-in-muse_english_xinhua/feed/ 0 mandalar The Associated Press: UN chief criticizes Myanmar and Zimbabwe http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-associated-press-un-chief-criticizes-myanmar-and-zimbabwe/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-associated-press-un-chief-criticizes-myanmar-and-zimbabwe/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:06:54 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-associated-press-un-chief-criticizes-myanmar-and-zimbabwe/ ]]> The Associated Press: UN chief criticizes Myanmar and Zimbabwe

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]]> http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-associated-press-un-chief-criticizes-myanmar-and-zimbabwe/feed/ 0 mandalar Jatropha government and jatropha nation http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/jatropha-government-and-jatropha-nation/ http://mandalar.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/jatropha-government-and-jatropha-nation/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:59:16 +0000 mandalar http://mandalar.wordpress.com/?p=101 ]]> Burmese government has forced its people to grow jatropha plant in order to produce fuel oil while natural gas explored from Burma’s off shore is sold to neighbouring Thailand and China. The shortage of energy is terrible in Burma. Even in its largest city, like Yangon, the electricity supply is only 6 hours a day. In the high rises, generators are ignited when people need to use lifts. That is Myanmar, former Burma.

Myanmar pushes jatropha cultivation for biofuel market

Main motivation is to reduce the millions of precious foreign exchange reserves Myanmar spends on fuel imports.-ST
Jessica Cheam

Tue, Dec 09, 2008
The Straits Times

MAW TIN (Myanmar): A green, leafy shrub has taken root in Myanmar, proving to be a keen rival to the country’s padi fields.

With a greyish-brown bark, large hairy leaves and poisonous fruit, the plant is far from a food crop yet it is cultivated throughout Myanmar, sometimes even in window boxes in flats.

Jatropha curcas, to give it its official name, has emerged as a wonder plant of sorts and tipped to be a key feedstock in the global biofuels industry. Myanmar – with the help of some Singapore firms – is betting big on it. Source

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