Business International Relations Lead Story News
The US decision to further ease restrictions on trading through Steven Law’s shipping port and airports put the blacklisted businessman in a position to profit from the latest changes to the US sanctions regime.
Business Lead Story News Trade
Half of all Burma’s trade flows through the Asia World terminal, owned by blacklisted Steven Law.
A recent report indicating that Canadian and Burmese officials are discussing future military cooperation has raised alarm bells.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story Military News
Kachin exile groups say US sanctions on the Burmese military should stay in place until the conflict in Kachin State is resolved.
Business Economy Lead Story News
As imports soar in Burma’s booming economy, the country’s largest port struggles to keep up.
Business International Relations Lead Story News
The US government has decided to maintain most economic restrictions on Burma in an effort to punish those Washington sees as hampering the country’s newly elected government.
Serge Pun may be unburdened by international sanctions, but his Mr Clean image has done little to help him clear domestic hurdles.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
The US on Monday welcomed Burma’s election as a victory for the people, and the vote appeared to raise prospects of a further lifting of US sanctions.
The Chinese company pushing to restart the controversial Myitsone dam in Kachin state is confident that Burma’s new democratic leadership, including Aung San Suu Kyi, will back the project.
The decision to scrap the Myitsone dam may be more to do with astute politics than bowing to popular demands, and demonstrates a sea-change from past subservience to China
Legal consequences may result from cancellation of Myitsone Dam owing to the agreements already made by Burmese government
Old vehicles to be swapped for a permit to import new ones, but analysts claim move may be an attempt to cool rising Burmese currency
Majority of increase targeted at companies with a stake in the Shwe pipeline, as campaigners criticise lack of ethical consideration
Burmese junta and several crony companies played a key role in a money-laundering scam involving cut-price Maldivian oil
Three dams in the pipeline as Burmese tycoons and Chinese companies look set to dominate the lucrative hydropower sector
Accounts from torture victims, US-trained intelligence officers and a bugged anti-drugs officer illuminate the dark and secretive role of the Agency in Burma
Work begins on 800km pipeline to carry Burmese gas to southwestern China hours after the two allies sign a raft of bilateral trade agreements
Analysis Business Features (OLD) Politics
One spectre threatens to over shadow the junta’s experiment with ‘democracy’ and in turn the country; a spectre that threatens to dominate the nation and define power within for years to come.
Feb 26, 2008 (DVB), Three more individuals and a number of companies linked to them and Burmese tycoon Tay Za have been designated by the US Treasury Department for their[…]
“Unless both sides stop fighting and allow these people to go home, [the Kachin IDPs] are facing a dire situation.”
Chin Farmers Feature Lead Story
Challenges abound, but so too does hope that the right set of policies can spur development in this remote part of Burma.
A lawsuit against the Eleven Media Group should be dropped immediately, according to right groups calling on Burma’s government to reform restrictive media laws.
As Burma opens up to the world, experts warn the sharks and cowboys among the many frontier investors converging on the scene could exploit the impoverished nation
In a DVB exclusive, top international jurists, including lead prosecutor at the Slobodan Milošević trial, say evidence ‘strongly suggests’ that war crimes are taking place in Burma
