Myanmar jade traders are running from junta troops and dodging rebel attacks to sell dwindling volumes of the green gemstone, as the billion-dollar industry loses its shine months on from the coup.
Pongsatorn Chanwong on his current role as Consultant at Business Sweden Thailand
In a recent post, the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok spoke to Pongsatorn Chanwong who is currently working as a Consultant at Business Sweden Thailand, including Myanmar, Cambodia & Lao PDR. Pongsatorn …
Ex-US ambassador to UN Bill Richardson ends Myanmar visit
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson left Myanmar on Thursday after finishing a private humanitarian mission in which he sought to boost the Southeast Asian country’s efforts to fight …
Ex-US ambassador to UN Bill Richardson ends Myanmar visit
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson left Myanmar on Thursday after finishing a private humanitarian mission in which he sought to boost the Southeast Asian country’s efforts to fight …
Executive of Myanmar army-linked telecom firm fatally shot
A top executive of Myanmar’s military-linked telecommunications company was fatally shot Thursday near his home in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in an apparent assassination linked to the …
Telecom executive linked to Myanmar junta gunned down
YANGON: A top executive from a major Myanmar telecoms firm was shot dead on Thursday (Nov 4), the military said, the most senior figure to be hit in a spate of assassinations of junta-linked officials …
Myanmar’s Missing Millions
Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime, even while Myanmar battles a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Cambodia Set to Take Global Stage Again as ASEAN Chair
The Myanmar crisis will loom large in longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen’s third, and likely last, stint as the regional bloc’s chair.
Myanmar military assault in Chin echoes Rohingya crackdown
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Myanmar news every morning. Myanmar soldiers have torched more than 100 homes and two churches in the country’s restive north-west Chin …
Dispossession, deforestation and deceit in Myanmar
Past attempts to attain palm oil self-sufficiency resulted in widespread extortion and the theft of lands from local communities around the country.