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MAE HONG SONG: A group of indigenous villagers has spoken up against the government's plans to build big water projects in the Salween River Basin.

China has a major economic and geostrategic interest in resuming the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor and other regional cooperation projects.   

This morning at Sob Moei -- the confluence of the Moei and the Salween rivers on the Thailand-Myanmar border -- indigenous peoples and their supporters are attending a spiritual ceremony to express their collective stance to protect the Salween River from destructive dam projects.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in northern Shan State has forged links with the resistance and other EAOs opposed to the regime.

Move to attract foreign investment in grid hit by rolling blackouts since coup unlikely to succeed given risk from turmoil caused by military rule, say experts. 

For more than four decades of political instabilities, Myanmar has been a hotbed of internal and regional displacement, with millions of civilians forced to flee their homes.

The mostly ethnic Chinese people of the Kokang region in Shan State are backing resistance to the junta, almost certainly with the approval of Beijing.

In many ways, the future of the Myanmar military junta may well lie in the decisions made by the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) as 2022 ends and the two-year anniversary of the coup comes into view.

In many ways, the future of the Myanmar military junta may well lie in the decisions made by the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) as 2022 ends and the two-year anniversary of the coup comes into view.

Doi Kloselo in Mae Hong Son's Sop Moei district will be developed into a tourist attraction in what is seen as a move from locals to oppose the planned construction of a hydropower dam in the Salween River, locals say.