(October 20, 2006) New Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand has killed the grand plans of his predecessors, from vast tracts of oil palms to make biodiesel to building hydropower dams in military-ruled Myanmar.

(October 9, 2006) Thailand will not rely on Burma for gas supplies or electricity from controversial river hydro dam schemes for the country’s energy needs in the next decade, new Energy Minister Piyasvati Amranand said in Bangkok Friday.

(September 28, 2006) Will South-east Asia’s last untouched body of water, the Salween river, emerge as a testing ground for the future relationship between this region’s oldest military regime, in Burma, and the new junta on the block, in Thailand?

(September 15, 2006) A new report details the preparatory work for a giant dam on the Salween River that is taking place in the midst of an active war zone in Burma’s Shan state.

(August 23, 2006) In an annual examination of the performance of state-owned enterprises, Sinohydro Corp. — which is involved in dam-building on the Salween River in Burma — was one of four companies downgraded because of safety or pollution accidents.

(June 27, 2006) China, Thailand and Burma have signed an agreement to jointly develop the Hat Gyi dam in Burma.

(June 18, 2006) The 2,800 km-long Salween (Nu) River, southeast Asia’s longest undammed waterway, is fast becoming a front line in one of the world’s longest-running conflicts – the war between the Burmese junta and the region’s ethnic Karen people.

(January 7, 2001) Even in the dry season, and even in this time of war and uncertainty, the Salween River is a majestic waterway. … But now ominous signs have appeared, signs that promise disaster for the people of the Salween and their god.