Construction was expected to begin this year on an oil pipeline from Myanmar’s deep-water port of Sittwe to south-western China, state media on Monday quoted a Chinese oil company as saying.
Executives from the state-owned oil giant Sinopec made the announcement Sunday but gave no date or timetable for the construction, the official Xinhua News Agency [...]

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