Swedish-Finnish engineering services supplier AFRY has withdrawn from Myanmar’s hydropower projects, citing the junta’s human rights abuses. The business cited last month’s UN report recommended that …
Russia Uses Myanmar Pipeline to Transport oil to China
The pipeline is a joint partnership between a Chinese company and a junta-controlled business that rights groups are calling on governments to sanction.
UN expert urges Japan to sanction Myanmar junta
Japan should sanction Myanmar as it has done for Russia over its Ukraine invasion, a United Nations expert said Thursday, slamming the junta’s “barbarism and oppression”.Sanctions against the junta “would weaken its capacity to attack its people,
Bangladesh prime minister calls for support for Rohingya refugees
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to provide more support for Rohingya refugees who have fled from Myanmar to her country.
Norway sovereign wealth fund excludes Korea Gas, India’s GAIL over Myanmar link
The Norwegian central bank on Thursday excluded two oil and gas companies from its $1.4-trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, citing ethical concerns over their ties to the Myanmar military.
Norway sovereign wealth fund excludes Korea Gas, India’s GAIL over Myanmar link
The Norwegian central bank on Thursday excluded two oil and gas companies from its $1.4-trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, citing ethical concerns over their ties to the Myanmar military.
Pythons on your porch? Call Myanmar’s ‘Snake Princess’
At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van.Stuffed into the sacks were three months’ worth of work,
Myanmar’s neighbours, some ASEAN members hold secretive talks on crisis
Government and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbours, including India and China, held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a secretive effort to de-escalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation,
The World Bank In Myanmar
improves efficiency and responsiveness of public finance through financial trainings and supported introduction of tablet-based health management information systems to the midwives. Project funds …
Column: Tin spooked by threat of supply disruption in Myanmar
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) – Tin prices leapt higher on Monday on news of a possible production halt in Myanmar, the world’s third-largest producer of the soldering metal. London Metal Exchange …