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March 9, 2022

ESG Funds Scolded for Investing in Myanmar Arms Suppliers

Hundreds of ESG funds run by some of the world’s biggest money managers have a combined $13.4 billion stake in companies that supply weapons and technology to the Myanmar military, according to a report.

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March 9, 2022

Norway’s Telenor accused of ‘egregious breach’ of EU sanctions with surveillance system

Norway’s Telenor is still waiting for approval of the sale of its Myanmar business and such a sale will include a spyware system that can monitor in real-time, phone calls, SMS, and internet use. By selling to a military-linked company, the telecom giant may soon commit an “egregious breach” of EU sanctions in Myanmar, Myanmar Now writes.

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March 8, 2022

ပိတ်ဆို့မှုတွေကြားက ပြည်ပကို ထွက်နေတဲ့ မြန်မာ့သစ်များ

စစ်တပ်က ချုပ်ကိုင်ထားတဲ့ MTE မြန်မာ့သစ်လုပ်ငန်းကို ဒဏ်ခတ်အရေးယူထားတဲ့ နိုင်ငံတွေကို အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၃၇ သန်းကျော်ဖိုးရှိတဲ့ သစ်တွေကို စစ်ကောင်စီက တင်ပို့တယ်လို့ အမေရိကန် ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝါရှင်တန်ဒီစီအခြေစိုက် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ရေးရာ အကျိုးဆောင် Forest Trends အဖွဲ့က ပြောကြားလိုက်ပါတယ်။

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March 8, 2022

Telenor Group violating sanctions by installing telecoms spy system

According to the campaigning group Justice for Myanmar (JFM) the Telenor Group is violating European Union (EU) and Norwegian sanctions on Myanmar by installing and a Lawful Interception Gateway (LIG), which it is now proceeding to transfer to a military-linked company.

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March 8, 2022

Myanmar Timber Exports Continue, Despite Western Sanctions: Report

Myanmar’s military junta exported more than $37 million worth of timber to nations with active sanctions on the country’s state-run timber monopoly, according to the environmental advocacy group Forest Trends.

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March 7, 2022

Deutsche Abhörtechnik könnte Putschregierung in Myanmar stärken

Das auf Telekommunikation spezialisierte norwegische Unternehmen Telenor verkauft sein Geschäft in Myanmar, berichtete netzpolitik.org bereits vor zwei Wochen.

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March 6, 2022

NUG to put military-owned land in Yangon on auction block

Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) says it will auction off 25 military-owned properties in Yangon to raise money for the benefit of the country’s people.

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March 5, 2022

Norway’s Telenor accused of ‘egregious breach’ of EU sanctions with surveillance system that will allow Myanmar junta to spy on millions

Norway’s Telenor may soon commit an “egregious breach” of EU sanctions in Myanmar by selling a surveillance system to a junta-linked company that will allow the military to spy on millions of phone and internet users in real time, Myanmar Now has learned.

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March 5, 2022

Myanmar: Could German technology soon help the military stifle dissent?

To quash all dissent, a regime needs total control of communications: when it can eavesdrop on phone calls and intercept emails and messages as they are being exchanged, it can more easily rout out activists and target opposition figures or guerilla forces operating in hiding.

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March 3, 2022

ကချင်ဒေသ မြေရှားသတ္တုတူးဖော်ရေး သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိခိုက်လာ

အဆင့်မြင့်နည်းပညာနဲ့ ဖန်တီးထားတဲ့ ခေတ်မီလျှပ်စစ်ပစ္စည်းတွေမှာ အသုံးပြုနိုင်တဲ့ Rare Earth ခေါ် မြေရှားသတ္တုကို ကချင်ပြည်နယ် အထူးဒေသတွေမှာ စည်းကမ်းမဲ့ တူးဖော်နေ တာကြောင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးလာပြီလို့ ဒေသခံတွေက ပြောပါတယ်။