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Advocacy group Justice for Myanmar has started a petition calling on the tertiary institution Yale-NUS to remove its Governing Board Director, Kay Kuok Oon Kwong, over alleged business ties to the Myanmar junta.

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Justice For Myanmar has published details of 61 publicly listed companies that are in business with Myanmar’s illegitimate military junta and its conglomerates, complicit in the junta’s campaign of terror against Myanmar people. We demand urgent investor action.

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A recent report by Independent Economists for Myanmar (IEM) says that targeting the junta’s sources of foreign currency could force the regime to spend less on military expenses and instead prioritize the public’s needs.

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We have summarised some of the questions posed to the panel and asked them to respond. Here are their answers.

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French energy giant Total’s gas operation in Myanmar has been propping up the military junta by diverting funds from gas sales to offshore accounts instead of the government.

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China’s strategic and business interests in Myanmar had led it to side passively with the military junta after the February 1 coup. However, the anti-China sentiments prevailing among the military brass and civilians alike could spell trouble for Beijing.

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La Birmanie, caillou dans la chaussure du géant pétrolier Total ? Alors que la multinationale française essaie depuis maintenant plusieurs années de se présenter au grand public comme la major de l'énergie responsable, à grand renfort d'annonces sur le plan de la transition environnementale, ses activités dans ce pays du sud-est asiatique en proie à la guerre civile sont décriées ces dernières semaines.

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Tougher action is urgently needed to cut off foreign currency flows to the Myanmar military regime, suggested local and foreign financial experts, who argued that severing its financial lifeline would hasten the collapse of military rule.

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မုတ္တမကမ်းလွန်ပြင် ရတနာ သဘာ၀ဓာတ်ငွေ့ လုပ်ကွက်တွေကနေ ဓာတ်ငွေ့ တူးဖော်ပြီး ထိုင်းကို ပိုက်လိုင်းကနေ တင်သွင်းတဲ့ လုပ်ငန်းဟာ နိုင်ငံခြား ကုမ္ပဏီကြီးတွေ အတွက် အမြတ်မတန်တဆ ရနေပြီး၊ မြန်မာပြည်အတွက် အကျိုးရှိမှုက ပြောပလောက်ဖွယ် မရှိကြောင်း ဖော်ပြနေတဲ့ ငွေကြေး ဆိုင်ရာ စာရွက်စာတမ်းတွေ ပေါက်ကြားလာခဲ့ပါတယ်။

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A possible global treaty to address cybercrime risks legitimizing abusive practices and could be used as an excuse to silence government critics and undermine privacy in many countries, Human Rights Watch said today.

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