Burmese authorities have rejected the application of local residents for a peaceful protest...outside the office of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) that is working for the Shwe Gas Project on Kyaukpru’s Madae Island...[A]n organizer of the protest...[said] that the authorities have rejected their application promising that they will try to meet some of their demands...“The officials told me that...the demand of compensations for the confiscated farmlands and fruit orchards as per international standards and another demand are concerned with the central authorities and they would take considerations of those demands”...According to them, most of the farmers on Kyaukpru’s Madae Island have been suffering from the loss of their livelihood and joblessness, as two thirds of their paddy farms were confiscated for the Chinese companies for their projects related to the Shwe Gas Project.