<div> <div><img alt="" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8705/17385126835_83a51ba342_z.jpg" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In the morning of May 5, 2015 more than 5,000 people from Ye Township and other areas in Mon State came to Andin Village to protest the coal-fired power plant proposed by TTCL (previously named, Toyo-Thai Corporation)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between TTCL and Department of Hydropower Plan </div></div>

<p>Community representatives from Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States are handing a petition today to the Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, and to the Chinese and Thai Embassies in Yangon, urging an immediate halt to dam projects on the Salween River, which are fuelling war and violating the rights of local peoples.&nbsp;</p>