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Myanmar set to restart contentious $3.6 billion dam project backed by China

Ethnic Kachin people visit Myitsone, the confluence of the Mali and Nmai rivers, outside Myitkyina, capital city of Kachin state, Myanmar, on March 30, 2017. (File photo: Reuters)

NAY PYI DAW — Myanmar's new government aims to complete within roughly eight years a contentious US$3.6 billion dam project at Myitsone in northern Kachin state, said two ​sources with knowledge of comments by Khet Htein Nan, who leads the state administration.

The comments ‌came after junta chief turned president Min Aung Hlaing returned from a visit last month to China, which has long sought to build the massive hydropower project in the northermost province of the war-torn country.

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