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The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on a gambling empire hacked from the Laotian jungle which it said was involved in drug, human and wildlife trafficking and child prostitution.
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The Burmese military, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been invited back as an observer in a major multinational military exercise next year led by the United States and Thailand.
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The United States imposes sanctions on 13 “serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors” including Burmese general Maung Maung Soe, who oversaw this year’s brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
United States lawmakers have proposed a bill including sanctions and travel restrictions of Burmese military officials.
Wa tin likely ends up in an array of products made by US and other international companies, says a new Reuters report.
Wa leaders say that as part of its push to get rid of poppy, they relocated some 100,000 citizens – a sixth of the population.
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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.
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Washington is expected to offer more general licenses to specific companies, and take some people off Treasury’s list of “Specially Designated Individuals” targeted for sanctions.
The US is temporarily easing trade restrictions on Burma by allowing all shipments to go through its ports for six months, officials said on Monday.
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Half of all Burma’s trade flows through the Asia World terminal, owned by blacklisted Steven Law.
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In a 9 July notice posted on the US Treasury website, Thidar Zaw, 51, was noted as having been removed from the blacklist.
The speaker of Burma’s Union Parliament, Shwe Mann is set to address a crowd at the Washington DC-based think tank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Friday.
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In business this week: Burma’s flag-carrying airline will lease 10 Boeing aircraft from US- and Ireland-based GECAS and the Central Bank announces the sale of government treasury bonds beginning later this month…
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Boeing to provide 737s to Air Mandalay; Jalux, Mitsubishi to run Mandalay airport; Amara Bank introduces new scheme after blacklist scare ; Singapore now Burma’s top investor (or is it USA?); Demurrage fees to increase at Burmese ports;
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Burma’s lower house passed an emergency proposal denouncing the US for blacklisting Aung Thaung, a prominent member of Burma’s former military regime.
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Shortly ahead of President Obama’s trip to Burma, the US Treasury Department has blacklisted a lower house member of parliament, Aung Thaung, who represents the ruling USDP for Taungtha Township.
A delegation of senior officials from the United States has left Burma with the message that “it is time to engage” the country’s military.
A delegation of US officials met with representatives from the National League for Democracy party and the Karen State Progressive Party in Karen State’s capital Hpa-an on Monday.
Hit with a US$21 million fine from the US government for violating trade sanctions, Dutch company Fokker Services was working with four airlines in Burma — one of which is owned by a Burmese tycoon with close links to the military junta.
US companies remain under the microscope as they navigate sanctions to invest in an opening Burma.
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Dutch aerospace firm has been hit with a US$21 million penalty by US government for violating trade sanctions.
Burma is among a “core” group of nations still receiving conventional weapons from North Korea, says a 2013 US Department of Defense report to Congress, made public on Wednesday.
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The US$1.1 trillion spending package that US President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday contains new restrictions on assistance to Burma.
Asia Metal Co Ltd has rejected accusations by the US government that it has been involved in arms deals with North Korea.
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The United States Department of Treasury added three Burmese corporations and a military staff officer to the Specially Designated Nationals List on Monday for their involvement in the arms trade with North Korea.
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BUSINESS THIS WEEK: Burma and the Philippines pledge increased trade and investment; Shangr-la plans new hotel in Rangoon; IMF chief pledges support for Burma’s banking sector.
On Thursday, the US government fired the starting gun for American investors to get down to business in Burma, announcing two general licences permitting new investment in almost all of the country’s sectors
The US Senate confirmed Derek Mitchell’s appointment as America continues to engage Bura and seeks to consolidate the country’s diplomatic pivot to Asia
Campaigners urge Washington to target with punitive financial measures all businessmen in Burma who prop up the government
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[…]
