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Telenor’s sale of its Myanmar subsidiary will be completed by February 15, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The company will be majority-owned by the military-linked gems and petrol conglomerate, Shwe Byain Phyu.

“မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ငြိမ်းချမ်းမှုနဲ့ တည်ငြိမ်မှု ပြန်လည်ရရှိရေး အကြမ်းဖက်မှုတွေ ထိန်းချုပ်ပြီး ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာဆွေးနွေးအဖြေရှာဖို့ ဂျပန်အစိုးရက တိုက်တွန်းပါတယ်” ဟု ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ယိုရှိမာဆာက ဆိုသည်။

အမေရိကန်၊ ယူကေနဲ့ ကနေဒါ တို့က မြန်မာအာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုနဲ့  စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်တွေအပေါ် ပိတ်ဆို့ဒဏ်ခတ်အရေးယူမှုအသစ်တွေချမှတ်လိုက်တဲ့အပေါ်  Justice for Myanmar က ကြိုဆိုလိုက်ပေမယ့် စစ်အုပ်စုရဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုတွေကို ရပ်တန့်ဖို့က လုံလောက်မှု မရှိသေးဘူးလို့ ထောက်ပြထားပါတယ်။

Ieri, nel giorno del primo anniversario del colpo di Stato in Myanmar con il quale i militari hanno preso il potere spazzando via la democrazia, Stati uniti, Canada e Regno unito hanno annunciato nuove sanzioni coordinate contro alti funzionari, dirigenti d’azienda e società birmane che fornirebbero sostegno finanziario al sanguinario regime.

Activist organisation Justice for Myanmar calls for targeted sanctions against KT Group to prevent the flow of revenue and arms.

Australia, India, Japan and South Korea are still working with the Myanmar junta and failing to impose sanctions one year after the February 1 military coup.

Face à la détérioration des droits de l’homme en Birmanie, les fournisseurs internationaux d’énergie quittent le pays. Chevron, TotalEnergies et la société australienne Woodside ont annoncé qu’elles se retiraient des projets gaziers en Birmanie.

Quasi 1500 manifestanti uccisi. Undicimila cittadini arrestati, di cui ottomila tuttora in carcere. Poco più di 400 mila profughi, dei quali più di centomila bambini.

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Gli aerei iraniani che atterrano in Myanmar hanno sollevato speculazioni sulla cooperazione segreta militare, comprese le possibili vendite sensibili di armi iraniane in mezzo alle crescenti richieste internazionali di imporre un embargo sulle armi alla giunta militare.

The increasing investor focus on companies operating in Myanmar is extending to state and majority-state owned companies, RI understands, amid signs that investors are increasingly starting to engage on human rights issues with state-owned companies, tackle the issue in their sovereign portfolios and ramp up policy advocacy.

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