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114 relations: Agriculture, Andaman Sea, Ataran River, Baseflow, Battle, Biodiversity, Burma Campaign, Burma Road, Canyon, Cession, China, Chinese Expeditionary Force, Clearcutting, Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, Daen Lao Range, Dam, Dawna Range, Drainage divide, Ecology, Ecosystem, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Endemism, Fish, Fortification, Genus, Gravel road, Gulf of Thailand, Gyaing River, Hatgyi Dam, Haungtharaw River, Himalayas, Hsim River, Hydroelectricity, India, Indian Ocean, International waters, Irrawaddy River, Irrigation, Japan, Jinsha River, Joseph Stilwell, Karen Hills, Karen people, Karenni people, Kayah State, Kayin State, Kunlong Dam, Ledo Road, List of longest undammed rivers, List of rivers by discharge, ..., List of rivers by length, List of rivers of Asia, List of rivers of China, List of rivers of Myanmar, List of rivers of Thailand, Lisu people, Liu Jianqiang, Logging, Mawlamyine, Mekong, Moei River, Mon people, Mon State, Monsoon, Myanmar, Nam Hka, Nam Pang River, New Delhi, Nu people, Ocean, Orogeny, Pai River, Pawn River, Poverty, River, River delta, Salawin National Park, Salawin Wildlife Sanctuary, Seawater, Second Sino-Japanese War, Sedimentary rock, Shan Hills, Shan people, Shan State, Silt, Soil, Southeast Asia, State Peace and Development Council, Tai peoples, Tanggula Mountains, Tasang Dam, Teak, Teng River, Thai people, Thailand, Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine), The Nature Conservancy, The New York Times, Three Gorges Dam, Three Parallel Rivers, Tibetan Plateau, Turtle, UNESCO, United Nations, United States, Wa people, Wang Yongchen, Wen Jiabao, World Heritage site, World War II, Yangtze, Yuam River, Yunnan, Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau. Expand index (64 more) »
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean separated from the Bay of Bengal (to its west) by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and touching Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula.
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Ataran River
Ataran River is a river of Burma (most of its course) and Thailand (the uppermost part).
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Baseflow
Baseflow is the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways.
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Battle
A battle is a combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Burma Campaign
The Burma Campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma, South-East Asian theatre of World War II, primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army.
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Burma Road
The Burma Road was a road linking Burma with the southwest of China.
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Canyon
A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.
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Cession
The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese Expeditionary Force
The Chinese Expeditionary Force was an expeditionary unit of the Chinese Army that was dispatched to Burma and India in support of the Allied efforts against the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Burma in the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War.
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Clearcutting
Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.
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Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
The Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, commonly referred to as the UN Watercourses Convention, is an international treaty, adopted by the United Nations on 21 May 1997, pertaining to the uses and conservation of all waters that cross international boundaries, including both surface and groundwater.
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Daen Lao Range
The Daen Lao Range (ทิวเขาแดนลาว,; Loi La) is a mountain range of the Shan Hills in eastern Burma and northern Thailand.
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.
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Dawna Range
The Dawna Range, also known as Dawna Hills (Burmese Dawna Taungdan; ทิวเขาดอยมอนกุจู), is a mountain range in eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand.
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Drainage divide
A drainage divide, water divide, divide, ridgeline, watershed, or water parting is the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT; (การไฟฟ้าฝ่ายผลิตแห่งประเทศไทย) is a state enterprise, managed by the Ministry of Energy, responsible for electric power generation and transmission as well as bulk electric energy sales in Thailand. EGAT, established on 1 May 1969, is the largest power producer in Thailand, owning and operating power plants at 45 sites across the country with a total installed capacity of 15,548 MW. EGAT's monopoly position in Thailand's electrical energy market has been challenged by critics as influential as a former energy minister and other government members are on the board. It has been criticised as inefficient and an impediment to the development of renewable energy sources.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fortification
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gravel road
A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed.
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Gulf of Thailand
The Gulf of Thailand, formerly the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the western part of the South China and Eastern Archipelagic Seas, a marginal body of water in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Gyaing River
Gyaing River Myanmar's net is a river of Kayin State and Mon State, in southeastern Burma (Myanmar).
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Hatgyi Dam
The Hatgyi Dam (ဟတ်ကြီးဆည်) is a planned hydropower gravity dam to be constructed on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar.
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Haungtharaw River
Haungtharaw River (Haungthayaw River) is a river of Kayin State, in southeastern Burma (Myanmar).
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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Hsim River
Hsim River is a river of Burma.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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International waters
The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
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Irrawaddy River
The Irrawaddy River or Ayeyarwady River (also spelt Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jinsha River
The Jinsha River (Chinese: 金沙江, p Jīnshājiāng, "Gold Dust River") is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtze River.
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Joseph Stilwell
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II.
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Karen Hills
The Karen Hills, also known as Kayah-Karen Mountains, are one of the main hill ranges in eastern Burma.
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Karen people
The Karen, Kayin, Kariang or Yang people (ကညီကလုာ်, ကရင်လူမျိုး,; Per Ploan Poe or Ploan in Pwo Karen and Pwa Ka Nyaw or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen; กะเหรี่ยง) refer to a number of individual Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups, many of which do not share a common language or culture.
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Karenni people
The Karenni, also known as the Red Karen, the Kayah or the Kayahli (meaning "red human"), are a Sino-Tibetan people living mostly in Kayah State, Myanmar (Burma).
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Kayah State
Kayah State (ကယားပြည်နယ်, formerly, Karenni State) is a state of Myanmar.
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Kayin State
Kayin State (ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ်,, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; formerly Karen) is a state of Myanmar.
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Kunlong Dam
Kunlon Dam (ကွန်းလုံဆည်) is a dam project being constructed on Salween River, in northern Shan State, Burma.
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Ledo Road
The Ledo Road (লিডু, လီဒိုလမ်းမကြီး) (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was an overland connection between India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China, to aid the war effort against Japan — as an alternative to the Burma Road became required, once that had been cut-off by the Japanese in 1942.
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List of longest undammed rivers
This is a list of the longest undammed rivers of the world, ordered by length.
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List of rivers by discharge
This is a list of rivers by their average discharge, that is their water flow.
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List of rivers by length
This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.
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List of rivers of Asia
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List of rivers of China
This incomplete list of rivers that flow through China is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean.
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List of rivers of Myanmar
This is a list of rivers in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
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List of rivers of Thailand
This is a list of rivers of Thailand.
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Lisu people
The Lisu people (လီဆူလူမျိုး,;; ลีสู่; Lisu: or) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Burma (Myanmar), southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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Liu Jianqiang
Liu Jianqiang (Jianqiang Liu) is a Chinese investigative reporter, an environmentalist and non-fiction writer.
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Logging
Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
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Mawlamyine
Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; မတ်မလီု), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth largest city of Myanmar (Burma), World Gazetteer 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) River.
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Mekong
The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia.
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Moei River
The Moei River is a tributary of the Salween River.
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Mon people
The Mon (မောန် or မည်; မွန်လူမျိုး,; មន, มอญ) are an ethnic group from Myanmar living mostly in Mon State, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta and along the southern border of Thailand and Myanmar.
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Mon State
Mon State (မွန်ပြည်နယ်,; တွဵုရးဍုၚ်မန်၊ ရးမညဒေသ) is an administrative division of Myanmar.
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Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Nam Hka
Hka River or Nam Hka is a river of Shan State, Burma.
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Nam Pang River
The Nam Pang River, also known as Pang River, is a major river of Shan State, eastern Burma.
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New Delhi
New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.
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Nu people
The Nu people (alternative names include Nusu, Nung, Zauzou and Along) are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People's Republic of China.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Pai River
The Pai River originates in the mountains of the Daen Lao Range, Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand.
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Pawn River
The Pawn River, or Nam Pawn, is a river of Kayah State, eastern Burma, a tributary of the Salween.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Salawin National Park
The Salawin National Park or Salween National Park(อุทยานแห่งชาติสาละวิน) is located in Mae Sariang and Sop Moei Districts in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand, adjacent to its border with Burma.
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Salawin Wildlife Sanctuary
The Salawin Wildlife Sanctuary (เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าสาละวิน) is located in Thailand near the border with Burma and includes the Thai section of the Salween River.
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Seawater
Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Shan Hills
The Shan Hills (ရှမ်းရိုးမ, ฉานโยมา; Shan Yoma), also known as Shan Highland, is a vast mountainous zone that extends through Yunnan to Myanmar and Thailand.
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Shan people
The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
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Shan State
Shan State (Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်,; Shan: မိူင်းတႆး) is a state of Myanmar.
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Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.
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Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.
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State Peace and Development Council
The State Peace and Development Council (နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ; abbreviated to SPDC or) was the official name of the military government of Burma, which seized power under the rule of Saw Maung in 1988.
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Tai peoples
Tai peoples refers to the population of descendants of speakers of a common Tai language, including sub-populations that no longer speak a Tai language.
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Tanggula Mountains
The Tanggula (Chinese: 唐古拉山, p Tánggǔlāshān, or 唐古拉山脉, p Tánggǔlāshānmài), Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla Mountains (Tibetan: གདང་ལ་།, w Gdang La, z Dang La) are a mountain range in the central part of the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet.
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Tasang Dam
The Tasang Dam (တာဆန်းဆည်), also known as the Mong Ton Dam, is a planned multi-purpose dam on the Salween River in the Shan State, Myanmar.
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Teak
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.
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Teng River
Teng River or Nam Teng is a river of Shan State, eastern Burma.
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Thai people
Thai people or the Thais (ชาวไทย), also known as Siamese (ไทยสยาม), are a nation and Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, primarily living mainly Central Thailand (Siamese proper).
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine)
Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyaing) was the longest bridge in Myanmar before the construction of Pakouku Bridge and connects the city of Mawlamyaing with Mottama.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a charitable environmental organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
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Three Parallel Rivers
The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yunnan province, China.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known in China as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Turtle
Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Wa people
The Wa people (Wa language: Vāx; ဝလူမျိုး;; ว้า) are an ethnic group that lives mainly in northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Burma's border with China, as well as in Yunnan, China.
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Wang Yongchen
Wang Yongchen is the Senior Environment Reporter for China National Radio.
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Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) was the sixth Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as China's head of government for a decade between 2003 and 2013.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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Yuam River
The Yuam River (is a river in northwestern Thailand, part of the Salween watershed. It originates in the mountains of the Thanon Thong Chai Range, Khun Yuam District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. The river flows in a north–south direction and then in Sop Moei District it bends westwards and then northwestwards, forming a stretch of the Thai/Burmese border shortly before it joins the left bank of the Moei River, shortly before its confluence with the Salween. A major dam is projected on this river as part of a water diversion plan from the Salween to the Chao Phraya River. The Ngao River, which unlike most rivers in Thailand flows northwards, is one of the Yuam's main tributaries.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.
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Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau
The Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau or Yungui Plateau is a highland region located in southwest China.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salween_River
