Burma suspends dam project after rare outcry | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Burma's president on Friday ordered a halt to construction of a controversial $3.6 billion mega dam following rare public opposition over the Chinese-backed hydropower project.

A man in Myanmar drives a boat at sunset along the Irrawaddy river on the outskirts of Bagan 2009. Myanmar's president has ordered a halt to construction of a controversial $3.6 billion mega dam on the Irrawaddy following rare public opposition to the Chinese-backed hydropower project.

Resistance to the Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River has been building as pro-democracy and environmental activists test the limits of their freedom under the new nominally civilian regime.