Economy of Kachin State
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | PROFILE OF KACHIN STATE |
| Description/subject: | | This document provides a basic introduction to Kachin State inculding information about climate; population; inhabitants; religion and dialects; organization of districts; townships and villages; sown acreage and crops produced; traditional cultural festivals and TV retransmission stations. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | MODiNS.NET |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 June 2005 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | The Vanishing Lady Tycoon |
| Date of publication: | | July 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Stories of murder and mayhem abound in Kachin State’s casino town...
"Welcome to the Macao of northern Burma: Maija Yang, once a backward Kachin State border village but now a bustling boom town with more than a dozen casinos catering to Chinese gamblers sidelined by restrictions in their own country.
The frontier-style administration of Maija Yang, 160km north of the Kachin capital Myitkyina, is effectively in the hands of the Kachin Independence Organization, which is said to earn around 8.5 million yuan (more than US $1 million) annually from the Chinese-run casinos. Prostitution, drugs and alcohol probably net the town even more money.
The first of the casinos was built four years ago under a KIO development program originally intended to provide local people, traditionally reliant on the opium trade, with an alternative source of income. The high-minded plan went awry, however—the casinos employ mostly Chinese staff, and the drugs problem is only getting worse..." |
| Author/creator: | | Khun Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 7 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Development in Kachin State |
| Date of publication: | | 01 February 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | This article on Kachin State was originally printed in the New Light of Myanmar on February 1st, 2005, as part of a series leading up to and immediately following the celebration of Union Day on the 12th of February. The original text along with accompanying pictures and tables can also be found in the archive of the print edition of NLM in the On-line Burma Library at http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-01.pdf
An article summing up recent developments in the whole country with accompanying statistical tables was published in NLM on Union Day, 2005, and is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-12.pdf. |
| Author/creator: | | Thiha Aung |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SPDC (News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.5 MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-01.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 August 2005 |
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