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	SALWEEN - LoveToKnow Article on SALWEEN
		The Chinese believe the Salween valley to be deadly to all strangers, but it is in Chinese territoryparticularly in the Lu Kiang, or Mong Hk statethat there is the largest population on the river until Lower Burma is reached.
		The chief tributaries of the Salween in British territory are the Nani Yu and the Nam Oi or Nam Mwe on the right bank, and the Hsipa Haw on the left.
		SALWEEN, a district in the Tenasserim division of Lower Burma.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALWEEN.htm (1170 words)

	From Scorched Earth To Flooded Earth: The Generals' Dam On Burma's Salween River
		The plans for a major dam on the Salween in Burma's Shan State are a throwback to the brutish past of dam construction.
		Further displacement will occur as people flee the hopeless living conditions in relocation camps, the increasing abuses of the military, and the burden of forced labour, which is frequently cited by Burmese refugees in Thailand as a motive for leaving their home country.
		However, the planned Salween Dam represents an extreme case with regard to public participation and consultation in dam projects: the case where no such exercise is possible or, if undertaken, can be meaningful, due to the pervasive climate of fear created by the authorities' gross oppression of the affected population.
	www.asiasource.org /asip/salween.cfm (2584 words)

	BURMA - LoveToKnow Article on BURMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The northern portion of this tract, which on the east touches the basin of the Salween river, is hilly; the remainder towards the confluence of the Salween, Gyaing and Attaran rivers consists of broad fertile plains.
		The whole is comprised in the districts of Toungoo and Thaton, patt of the Karen-ni hills, with the Salween hill tract and the northern parts of Amherst, which form the northern portion of the Tenasserim administrative division.
		The Gyaing and the Attaran rivers meet the Salween at its mouth, and the three rivers form the harbour of Moulmein, the second seaport of Burma.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURMA.htm (12417 words)

	Karen River Watch Forum: Let Salween's River flow freely and stop dams project now !!!
		The Salween river is coming from the Himalayan mountain in Tibet, runs through China, Shan state, Kayah state, along the Thai-Burma border in Mae Hong Song province of Thailand and Karen state of Burma, and through the southern plain of Burma before going to the Andaman sea at the gulf of Martaban.
		Upper Salween Dam: Latitude 18° 55' north and Longitude 97° 33' east in Mae Sariang district of Mae Hong Son province.
		Lower Salween Dam: Latitude 18° 04' north and Longitude 97° 41' east in Mae Sariang district of Mae Hong Son province.
	www.freewebs.com /ka_rw2003/briefinformationofsalween.htm (1749 words)

	USATODAY.com - China's premier orders dam review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Any decision to scrap plans for the dam on the Salween River would delight environmentalists who have lobbied against it and would please Thailand and Myanmar, which are planning their own dams and object to the Chinese project.
		The Salween is known in Chinese as the Nu.
		The Salween is one of three great rivers that originate in the Himalayas and traverse China's southern borders with Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-04-09-china-dam_x.htm (694 words)

	[SWAN]Shan Women's Action Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The mighty Salween River flows for 2,400 kilometres from the Himalayan foothills through the Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States of Burma into the Indian Ocean.
		The Burmese military regime and the Thai government are planning to build a series of dams along the Salween River which will have devastating social and environmental impacts.
		If the Salween dams are built, these abuses by the Burmese military are sure to worsen.
	www.shanwomen.org /dam.html (439 words)

	Thailand’s Salween dams to fuel Southeast Asian regional power grid at the cost to ethnic communities and forest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Salween dam plans have also sparked huge controversy over Thailand ’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the continuing human rights violations by the brutal military dictatorship of Burma which has been engaging in killings, rape and the forcible displacement of ethnic communities living along the Salween river.
		The Upper Salween would be on the border of the Salween wildlife sanctuary and able to generate 4,540 megawatts of power.
		He also announced recently that the Salween dams were essential elements in plans by the eight Asean members to develop a power grid, and they should go ahead despite the concerns about the possible environmental and social impacts.
	www.ased.org /artman/publish/article_557.shtml (1575 words)

	+ : : Salween Watch : : +
		The Salween River, one of the great rivers of Southeast Asia, is under threat.
		Hydropower projects on the Salween are being revived in the face of protests by activist groups from China, Burma and Thailand.
		In the 1997 Salween logging scandal, 13,215 logs were seized from loggers who felled high-grade teak trees in Salween national park in Mae Hong Son province.
	www.salweenwatch.org (493 words)

	Salween River
		The Salween basin is a good case of river planning in advance of conflict.
		The Salween originates in the Tibetan plateau and drains an area of 320,000 km2 in China, Myanmar, and Thailand before it flows into the Gulf of Martaban.
		As mentioned, the Salween is a basin in its earliest stages of development.
	www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu /projects/casestudies/salween.html (376 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before damming the Salween, called the Nu river in China, the Chinese government needs to conduct environmental impact assessments (EIAs) not just internally but in downstream countries, says Chainarong Sretthachau, director of the South-east Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN), a regional environmental lobby based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
		Some groups have petitioned Beijing to go slow on it the Salween is among the few undammed rivers in China, is close to rich heritage sites and is not really necessary, he told regional water conference in Thailand in November.
		The governments are also ignored.'' ''The Salween project will become a source of conflict like the Mekong is becoming,'' she added.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=21668 (836 words)

	Air Supply on the Salween River Front - WWII
		But whereas a dropping-space cut into the jungle was easily apparent from the air, a flat area in the rugged Kaoli Kung was a rarity, and difficult to locate among the jagged peaks.
		Some of the areas in which the battles were fought were never completely cloudless, and it was necessary for the pilot to find a gap in the clouds before he could locate his dropping target.
		By the time the Chinese Expeditionary Force and its Y-Force advisors and technicians crossed the Salween in their rubber assault boats, the Y-Force Air Dropping Detachment was prepared.
	www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil /WWII/air_supply_salween.htm (2196 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i ))) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lae Wah, an elder member of Salween Eyes (SEE), explained that he came to take part in the ceremony opposite the EGAT planned dam site and pray to the land spirits, because these spirits helped his ancestors in the past and he has faith that they will also help him and his people now.
		However, most of the villagers are very aware of the potential devastating impact that a state run dam project on the Salween river, involving drastic changes to the local water infrastructure, will have on their community.
		The opposition to the Salween dam plans are gaining momentum with diverse people and groups including environmentalists, human rights activists and advocates of ethnic groups based in Thailand and Burma, voicing concerns about the serious impact of the dams.
	www.indymedia.org /or/2005/04/114586.shtml (1410 words)

	About Salween River Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Salween River Band was founded by two musician brothers, Moe Nyunt and Thiri Nyunt, in the Summer time of 1998.
		The name of their band, Salween River, is one of the two longest rivers in their country, Burma (Myanmar), and has suffered war burden for more than five decades.
		He added that Salween River should be a symbol of national unification and internal peace in Burma.
	www.geocities.com /salweenriverband/AboutSalweenRiverBand.html (291 words)

	burma.indymedia.org \| Signature campaign to oppose the Salween Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Calling for a halt to the Salween Dam project along the Thai-Burma border, the local people have embarked on a mass petition campaign under the banner of Karen social and environment groups.
		The move by KRW is "to prove the Karen people's concern and to show solidarity with the Thai movement against the Salween dam project," the activist said.
		However, the mass petition against the Salween dam is being used as a popular information sharing tool at the grass-roots level.
	burma.indymedia.org /my/2005/06/194.shtml (756 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Salween River (173)
		The Salween River is home to many freshwater fish and turtles, many of which are endemic.
		These extraordinary peaks are covered with snow and glaciers, the meltwater from which is the source of the Salween and other rivers and streams.
		The Salween runs parallel to the mightly Mekong River for much of its course and forms part of the border between Myanmar and Thailand.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g173.html (363 words)

	E-Citylife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dam construction on the Salween will be no ordinary matter, for the government of the neighboring country in question happens to be the region’s most repressive regime.
		The Salween in particular runs through ethnic minority areas of the country where indigenous populations have been suffering brutal treatment by the military for decades.
		A mega-dam on the Salween is likely to cause massive labour rights violations at an unprecedented level.
	www.chiangmainews.com /ecmn/july03/41.php (974 words)

	Karen River Watch Forum: Let Salween's River flow freely and stop dams project now !!!
		There was a fighting in IDPs hideout on the bank of Salween Dam on March 16 which 3 died.
		Karen Team, made it cleared that the existing health crisis in the IDP areas is the effect of what the pre-construction dam's Plan which the regime try to control the area at the expense of all cause.
		In the area where the Upper Salween Dam is targeted, the reservoir areas will reach to some areas.
	www.freewebs.com /ka_rw2003/differentviewofkarencsos.htm (781 words)

	DPNS calls on China to reconsider dam project on Nujing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Nujing river in Yunnan province is known as the Salween river in Burma.
		China was widely criticized by environmental groups and groups like the exiled DPNS for showing little concern for the downstream countries who fear adverse ecological effects.
		He voiced concern that forests and wetlands along the river would dry out, that many species of flora and fauna would be eradicated and that the downstream valley wouldl be flooded with seawater influx.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-feb/04-feb04-1.htm (396 words)

	E-Citylife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Damming of the longest free-running river in mainland Southeast Asia, the Salween, is firmly back on the agenda as the Thai government moves to lessen its dependence on increasingly expensive oil imports and looks to alternative methods of supplying the country's insatiable energy thirst.
		Yet the plans have run headlong into the indignation and resistance of local indigenous communities and grassroots organisations who fear the construction of the dams will spell the death of their villages and the natural environment that forms the lifeblood of their very existence.
		The controversy arises from the fact that all three dams are to be built amidst the ongoing civil war between Shan and Karen indigenous minorities and the ruling military junta.
	www.chiangmainews.com /ecmn/2005/august05/28_salween.php (979 words)

	Salween Watch Update
		At the end of April, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered the relocation of Karen refugees from the Salween forest in Mae Hong Son, giving the reason that the move is to prevent further illegal timber felling as “the Karen were log poachers in the past”.
		The villagers of Mae Sariang said they supported the dam as they believed 3% of the profits from sale of electricity from the Salween Dam would to go to their town, the development project would increase local cash flow, and there would be a reduction in the number of power cuts.
		Many are gearing up for the battle to protect the Salween and the ethnic groups whose lives depend on it despite their already busy agendas, made up of, among other things, the opposition to blasting of reefs along the Mekong river to widen and deepen the navigation channel.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/SW14.htm (5227 words)

	Shan State Relief Mission May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The mission area was from Jew Kaw in the east, to Kang Pha in the west (northeast of Ho Mong, Burma), and north across the Salween River to the Mong Pan area.
		The total military strength Burma Army, UWSA and SSS in this area south of the Salween from Ho Mong in the West to Mong Kyawk in the east is 2000-2200 soldiers.
		The dirt road from Ho Mong north to the Salween is being improved by the Burma Army and the SSS.
	www.freeburmarangers.org /Reports/shan_state_relief_mission_may_2004.htm (3350 words)

	The Salween River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Salween, the mainland Southeast Asia’s longest undammed river, travels 2,800 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau through Yunnan Province of China, the Shan and Kayah States of Burma, along the Thai-Burma border, and eventually into the Indian Ocean in the Mon State of Burma.
		In addition to the projects planned on the mainstream Salween in Thailand and Burma, China recently announced plans to build a cascade of 13 dams on the Nu River (Nujiang), the portion of the Salween River that flows in China
		Salween Dams in Burmar and on Thai-Burmese border
	www.searin.org /salween_en.htm (566 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mega-Dam Projects: Background The Salween River is the longest free-flowing river in Southeast Asia, running through China, Burma and along the Thai-Burmese border before reaching the Andaman Sea.
		By trapping much of the river’s sediment, the Salween would lack its normal sediment load downstream of the dam and would try to increase the sediment it carries by eroding the bed and the banks of the river.
		Stops the Dams—Save the Salween River The obstacles faced by those resisting the dam projects on the Salween are considerable: an entrenched military regime bent on crushing minority groups, lack of transparency regarding funding of the project, and self-interested "constructive engagement" policies by Burma’s neighbors.
	www.escr-net.org /ConferenceDOcs/salweendam.doc (2283 words)

	SALWEEN RIVER MUSIC BAND IN THE USA - Kao Wao News Letter
		The source said the "Salween River" was chosen to dedicate thousands of unknown youths who lost their lives along the war torn river.
		"Salween River" symbolizes one of the two longest rivers in Burma which flows through Shan, Karen, Karenni (Kayah) and Mon States and also demarcates some Thai Burma borderline.
		Thiri said that Salween River should be a symbol of national unification and internal peace in Burma.
	www.burmatoday.net /kaowao/2004/01/040110_salween_kaowao59.htm (265 words)

	Thailand’s Salween dams to fuel Southeast Asian regional power grid at the cost to ethnic communities and forest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, opposition to the Salween dam plans is gaining momentum with diverse people and groups including senators, environmentalists, human rights activists and advocates of ethnic groups based in Thailand and Burma voicing concerns about the serious impacts of the dams.
		Salween Watch, a Chiang Mai-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has reported that over 300,000 Shan and other ethnic people have been forced by the Burmese military to relocate from central Shan state to make way for the Ta Sarng dam.
		The letter stated that: "The Salween dams are large-scale projects which will have major impacts on communities in the area.
	www.ased.org /artman/publish/printer_557.shtml (1507 words)

	Asia River cruises: Asia river cruises, Yantze river cruises, cruise European rivers including the Rhine, Moselle, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The great Yangtze, Salween and Mekong rivers carve deep gorges around the eastern peaks of the Himalayas as they flow from their headwaters in Qinghai and northern Tibet.
		The Salween is also known as the Nu river, or 'angry river' in Chinese.
		The village is one of the most beautiful villages in the Salween River valley and the site of a 124-year-old church.
	www.rivercruisetours.com /asia/China&Tibet.htm (1780 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
		Salween is one with many, but the main one is about the Burma situation about 10 years ago when this movie was made.
		They tangle with yet another star, a Karen rebel commander (Chatchai Plengpanich), who is seen throughout the film but really comes into his own during the latter third.
		The title of the film, Salween, comes from the name of the river that forms one of the borders between Thailand and Burma (or Myanmar, if you insist).
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_view.php?journalid=100000335&entryid=75440&view=public (737 words)

	EarthRights International / News - Beijing Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet the plans for 13 dams on the Salween River present a grave threat to the communities of Burma living along the Salween.
		The Salween River, known as the Nu River in China, is the longest free-flowing river in Southeast Asia.
		Close to one hundred species of fish, migrate between the Salween River and its tributaries, and forests lining the river are some of the most fertile in the world for growing teak trees.
	www.earthrights.org /news/BeijingConf.shtml (696 words)

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